Please find herewith two references for analysis of hair samples using AAS.
1. Arsenic in Ground Water in Six Districts of West Bengal, India: The Biggest
Arsenic Calamity in the World. Part 2. Arsenic Concentration in Drinking Water,
Hair, Nails, Urine, Skin-scale and Liver Tissue (biopsy) of the Affected People.
Dipankar Das, Amit Chatterjee, Badal Mandal, Gautam Samanta, Bhabatosh Chanda &
Dipankar Chakraborti. The Analyst, 120, 917-924, 1995.
2. Flow Injection Hydride Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry for
determination of arsenic in water and biological samples from arsenic affected
districts of west Bengal, India and Bangladesh. Samanta, T. Roy Chowdhury, B.
K. Mandal, B.K. Biswas, U.K. Chowdhury, G. K. Basu, R. Chanda, D. Lodh and D.
Chakraborti. Microchemical Journal 62, 174-191, 1999.
Sincerely yours,
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman
Ph.D. student of Dr. Dipankar Chakraborti
School of Environmental Studies
Jadavpur university, Calcutta-700032, India.
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