“…Among the various atomic spectroscopic detectors, flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS), graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy (GFAAS), and flame or plasma atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS), as well as microwave-induced plasma (MIP), direct-current plasma (DCP), and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy (AES) hold the most potential as element-specific detectors for HPLC. Indeed, over 125 publications on atomic, element-specific detectors have appeared in the literature in the last 15 will eventually be the method of choice for simultaneous, multielement, element-specific chromatographic detection (4)(5)(6)(7)(8). It should be noted, however, that nonspecific, on-line HPLC detectors of molecular properties should not be discounted.…”