Our semi-quantitative screening includes about 70 elements. This comprehensive analysis is useful for a number of applications such as:

  • Estimating background levels in environmental samples such as water, biota, sediment, etc.
  • The elemental screening is also useful in cases where it is uncertain which elements to expect in an analytical sample. Data from our screening analyses are often used in deciding which metals to analyze quantitatively on a routine basis.

Read more about LOQs and sample quantities here

Scope of analysis

aluminium iodine samarium
antimony iridium scandium
arsenic iron selenium
barium lanthanum silicon
beryllium lead silver
bismuth lithium sodium
boron lutetium strontium
bromine magnesium sulfur
cadmium manganese tantalum
caesium mercury tellurium
calcium molybdenum terbium
cerium neodymium thallium
chromium nickel thorium
cobalt niobium thulium
copper osmium tin
dysprosium palladium titanium
erbium phosphorus tungsten
europium platinum uranium
gadolinium potassium vanadium
gallium praseodymium ytterbium
germanium rhenium yttrium
gold rhodium zinc
hafnium rubidium zirconium
holmium ruthenium  

Certain elements may have to be excluded due to matrix interferences.
The analysis is not accredited.