摘要：Metal ion analysis is an important aspect during water quality monitoring of either surface or ground water sources. In spite of the availability of several other metal ion analysis techniques for drinking water samples, today atomic absorption spectroscopic (AAS) method is most commonly being used due to the reproducibility of results, short analysis time, cost effective, lower level detection and hyphenated in nature. Therefore, we have attempted to describe the atomic absorption spectroscopic analytical technique in a simple manner. The principle, instrumentation, water sample collection and their preservation, sample preparation, instrument calibration and data analysis for AAS analysis have been described in a simple manner specially for under graduate and post graduate students.
关键词：Metal Analysis; Fresh Water Sample; Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
