“…The attributes and limitations of ICP-OES have been discussed by several authors (Kornblum and De Galan, 1977;Jarosz et al, 1978;Barnes and Boumans, 1978;Larson and Fassel, 1979;Uchida et al, 1981;Ingle and Crouch, 1988;Tripković and Holclajtner-Antunović, 1993;Galley and Hieftje, 1994;Hou and Jones, 2000;Hill, 2008;Butcher, 2010;Thompson, 2012). Critical parameters that affect the ICP-OES analytical performance and require optimization are: RF power, nebulizer gas flow rate, viewing height and sample introduction rate (Boumans, 1979;Zhaneni and Wagatsuma, 2002;Raaijmakers et al, 1983;Boumans, 1987).…”