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Kay Niemax and colleagues from the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin and the University of Dortmund show that end-on ICP-OES can be used to examine the relative mass distribution in a sample of SiO2 particles.

Measurement of element mass distributions in particle ensembles applying ICP-OES
Ayrat Murtazin, Sebastian Groh and Kay Niemax
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1395-1401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C004946H

Jiubin Chen and colleagues from Trent University, Canada describe a new method which allows the measurement of Hg isotope composition in freshwater samples.

Chromatographic pre-concentration of Hg from dilute aqueous solutions for isotopic measurement by MC-ICP-MS 
Jiubin Chen, Holger Hintelmann and Brian Dimock
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1402-1409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C0JA00014K

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Continuing the 25th anniversary celebrations for JAAS, Hiroki Haraguchi and JAAS Editorial Board member, Naoki Furuta provide a detailed account of how the field analytical atomic spectrometry has developed in Japan over the last 25 years. This includes key contributors and landmark events and they also consider the prospects for area in the future.

Read this Editorial in the latest issue of JAAS:

Analytical atomic spectrometry in Japan over the last 25 years
Hiroki Haraguchi and Naoki Furuta
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 1371-1377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C005496H

Naoki Furuta

Hiroki Haraguchi