“…This is a closed system where sample and reagents can be pumped continuously through the flow system or maintained to be irradiated in stopped-flow conditions. As examples of very interesting works regarding a continuous flow system and environmental samples we must mention the papers published by Karanassios et al (1991), Haswell and Barclay (1992), Welz et al (1992), Tsalev et al (1992a), Carbonell et al (1992), Hanna and McIntosh (1995), Arruda et al (1997) and Almeida et al (1997). These papers deal with metal determinations by using atomic spectroscopy techniques for samples such as waters, wastewaters, botanic, biological tissues, sludge, sediments, and rocks, respectively.…”