“…It is distributed in the crust in the form of silicate, sulfide, sulfate (Froelich and Andreae, 1981) and so on. At present, many methods, such as hydride generation-inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (HG-ICP-AES) (Jin et al, 1991;Ellchl, 1983;Brindle and Le, 1989;Ldszl6 et al, 2003;Bolea et al, 2004), x-ray fluorescence analysis (Haffer et al, 1997), 7-ray spectroscopy (Asador et al, 2001) and polarography (Shi and Jiao, 1996;Yang and Hu, 199i), are used to analyse trace germanium in environmental samples. HG-AFS is an effective method to analyse germanium.…”