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Sequential extraction procedures are mostly applied to soils and sediments. Investigations were made for testing the applicability of a selected extraction scheme on spoil pile material. Therefore, different spoil pile samples from uranium mining were extracted into four steps (exchangeable, reducible, oxidizable, and aqua regia soluble phase) and the contents of the elements Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Ni, and Zn were analyzed. To substitute the sequential extraction by a sequence of single extractions and thus keep uncertainties of extraction on a low level, both procedures were compared regarding conformity of their results. The effects of sample handling as well as those of analysis on the measured metal contents were determined by means of analysis of variance and sources of uncertainties were discussed.
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Eichfeld, S., Einax, J. & Knapp, G. Resolution of uncertainty of a four-stage sequential extraction procedure using analysis of variance. Anal Bioanal Chem 372, 801–807 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-002-1251-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-002-1251-9