Speciation News

A special issue of "Frontiers in Chemistry" will be devoted to "Advances in Analytical Techniques and Methodology for Chemical Speciation Study". The issue is open for contributions. Abstracts should ...

A new study reports the development of a method for the determination of the main toxic arsenic compounds in water samples by capillary electrophoresis coupled to electrospray mass spectrometry....

Brazilian researchers have developed an analytical method for arsenic species in rice milk using LC-ICP-MS. Its main features are fast analysis, simple sample preparation and adequate accuracy and pre...

More than half of rice varieties sold in the UK contained levels of arsenic higher than regulations allow for babies and children under five. Scientists call for labelling to warn of particular risk t...

Researchers from Taiwan developed a method for the in-vivo determination of the transition of brain extracellular mercury after thimerosal administration....

A group of researchers from China and Canada have investigated the arsenic species in e-liquids used for e-cigarettes and the aerosols generated from them. Besides arsenate, arsenite and monomethylars...

Researchers from Sweden and Vietnam developed a sensitive and selective method for the speciation of methylmercury-thiol complexes found in the extracellular milieu of methylating bacteria....

North American researchers investigated, whether human dried blood spot (DBS) samples can be used for mercury speciation analysis. ...

Japanese researchers developed a method for the determination of arsenic and mercury species in fish oil within a single HPLC-ICP-MS run. ...

German researchers developed a method for quantification of the cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4), decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5), and dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane ...