PUBLICATIONS--A Supplement to Methods for the Determination of Inorganic Substances in Water and Fluvial Sediments.





In Reply Refer To:                             May 6, 1982
EGS-Mail Stop 412



QUALITY OF WATER BRANCH TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 82.13

Subject:  PUBLICATIONS--A Supplement to Methods for the 
          Determination of Inorganic Substances in Water 
          and Fluvial Sediments.

The subject publication, Open-File Report 82-272, supplements 
TWRI Book 5, Chapter A1 (1979).  It contains new methods and 
revisions of selected methods procedures that are approved by 
the Water Resources Division for the analysis of water and 
fluvial sediments for inorganic substances.  A copy is 
attached for your use.

Because of the expanding interest in the analysis of metals 
in aquatic systems, the new introductory material on atomic 
emission spectrometry preceding the Inductively Coupled 
Plasma method should be of special interest.  It provides a 
concise description of the theory and application of emission 
spectroscopy.


                             R. J. Pickering
                             Chief, Quality of Water Branch

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Key Words:  water quality, inorganic analysis, methodology, 
analytical methods

This memorandum does not supersede any previous memorandum

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