1. Editorial

   • Georg Schwedt

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Quality control in speciation investigations

   • B. Michalke

   Lectures Pages: 2 - 6

3. The importance of element speciation in water analysis — a plea for further investigations

   • F. H. Frimmel
   • T. Gremm

   Lectures Pages: 7 - 13

4. Chemometric investigations on the differentiated evaluation of element trace analysis in river waters

   • Jürgen Einax
   • Sabine Geiß

   Lectures Pages: 14 - 17

5. Speciation of mercury in soils and sediments by thermal evaporation and cold vapor atomic absorption

   • G. Bombach
   • K. Bombach
   • W. Klemm

   Lectures Pages: 18 - 20

6. Mercury-cycling in surface waters and in the atmosphere — Species analysis for the investigation of transformation and transport properties of mercury

   • R. Ebinghaus
   • H. Hintelmann
   • R. D. Wilken

   Lectures Pages: 21 - 29

7. Simultaneous determination of organic ionic lead and mercury species using HPLC

   • K. Cammann
   • M. Robecke
   • J. Bettmer

   Lectures Pages: 30 - 33

8. Iron in atmospheric aqueous and particulate samples

   • P. Hoffmann
   • T. Sinner
   • H. M. Ortner

   Lectures Pages: 34 - 37

9. Speciation of chromium in the waste water from a tannery

   • Kathrin Stein
   • Georg Schwedt

   Lectures Pages: 38 - 43

10. Development of an automated technique for the speciation of arsenic using flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS)

    • T. R. Rüde
    • H. Puchelt

    Lectures Pages: 44 - 48

11. Arsenic in contaminated soil and river sediment

    • G. Bombach
    • A. Pierra
    • W. Klemm

    Lectures Pages: 49 - 53

12. Determination of total arsenic and speciation of arseno-betaine in marine fish by means of reaction — headspace gas chromatography utilizing flame-ionization detection and element specific spectrometric detection

    • U. Ballin
    • R. Kruse
    • H. -A. Rüssel

    Lectures Pages: 54 - 61

13. Speciation of cadmium in seawater — a direct voltammetric approach

    • Eckard Helmers

    Lectures Pages: 62 - 67

14. Investigations of properties and binding forms of cadmium and nickel in protein extracts by ultra-/diafiltration, photometry and atomic absorption spectrometry

    • Kirsten Lange-Hesse

    Lectures Pages: 68 - 73

15. The influence of surfactants on the behaviour of heavy metals in the system n-octanol-water

    • Jörg Friedel
    • Iain L. Marr
    • Helmut Müller

    Lectures Pages: 74 - 76

16. Organotins: their analysis and assessment in the Elbe river system, Northern Germany

    • R. -D. Wilken
    • J. Kuballa
    • E. Jantzen

    Lectures Pages: 77 - 84

17. Bromine and iodine in the system “aerosol-plant”

    • L. Tobler
    • S. Bajo
    • M. Langenauer

    Lectures Pages: 85 - 88

18. Speciation of the inorganic components in brown coal

    • Carla Vogt

    Lectures Pages: 89 - 92

19. Applications of capillary electrophoresis in element speciation analysis of plant and food extracts

    • Jürgen Harms
    • Georg Schwedt

    Lectures Pages: 93 - 100