“…Graphite tubes without platforms are rarely used [18,31,45]. GF-AAS is applied to determine a specific group of trace elements {i.e., Al [17,19,34,46], As [1,6,19,37], Cd [11,17,19,20,38,45,46,49,50], Cr [11,18,31,45], Cu [1,6,9,37,50], Fe [52], Ni [9,11,31,45], Pb [1,4,6,9,14,16,17,19,33,37,46,[49][50][51] and Sb [18]}. However, it can also be used for determining selected major and minor elements (i.e., Zn, Fe, Ca, Mg and Na) …”