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In the 15-year period between 1966 and 1981, detection limits for atomic spectroscopic methods of analysis have decreased by an average of 3 orders of magnitude. The current (1982) state of the art for the atomic techniques in general use is presented and the methods compared using the detection limits as the figure of merit.
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Parsons et al. (1983) studied this question.
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