The price paid for this decrease in analysis time is a modest increase in the total error of analysis.Zief and Mitchell (22), among others, have clearly stated the need for an analytical laboratory handling a diversity of analytical problems to have available highly accurate, in addition to fast (less accurate) analysis methods. Depending on the requirements of the analytical problem at hand, speed or accuracy may be of greater importance. We feel that the general method of slurry-injection atomic absorption, because it uses relatively inexpensive and widely available commercial instrumentation, is a viable analytical alternative when speed