Direct solid sampling by Laser Ablation into an Inductively Coupled Plasma Synchronous Vertical Dual View Optical Emission Spectroscope (LA-SVDV-ICP OES) was used for the elemental analysis of nutrient elements Ca, B, Mn, Mg, K and Zn and essential (non-metallic) elements P and S in plant materials. The samples were mixed with paraffin as a binder, an approach that provides better cohesion of the particles in the pellets in addition to supplying carbon to serve as an internal standard (atomic line C I 193.027 nm) as a way to compensate for matrix effects, and/or variations in the ablation process. Precision ranged from 1 to 8 % relative standard deviation (RSD) with limit of detection ranging from 0.4 to 1 and 25 to 640 mg kg-1 for metallic and non-metallic elements, respectively.
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