BS ISO 17378-1:2014 BSl Standards Publication Water quality Determination of arsenic and antimony Part 1: Method using hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HG-AFS) bsi. ..making excellence a habit. BRITISH STANDARD BS ISO 17378-1:2014 National foreword This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO 17378-1:2014. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical CommitteeEH/3/2,Physicalchemicalandbiochemicalmethods A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. @ The British Standards Institution 2014.Published by BSI Standards Limited2014 ISBN978 0580709630 ICS 13.060.50 Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations. This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 28 February 2014. Amendments issued since publication Date Text affected BS ISO 17378-1:2014 ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 17378-1 First edition 2014-02-01 Water quality - Determination of arsenic and antimony - Part 1: Method using hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HG-AFS) QualitedeI'eau-DosagedeI'arsenicetdeI'antimoine- Partie 1: Methode par spectrometrie defluorescence atomique a génération d'hydrures (HG-AFS) Reference number IS0 17378-1:2014(E) ISO @ISO2014 BS ISO 17378-1:2014 IS017378-1:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT IS02014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either Iso at the address below or ISo's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56·CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii ISO 2014-All rights reserved BS ISO 17378-1:2014 IS0 17378-1:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword .iv Introduction .. 1 Scope. .1 2 Normative references ..1 3 Principle .2 4 Interferences ..2 5 Reagents .4 5.1 General requirements .4 6 .9 Apparatus 7 Sampling and sample preparation .11 7.1 Samplingtechniques 11 7.2 Pre-reduction. 11 8 Instrumental set-up .11 9 Procedure .12 10 Calibration and data analysis .13 10.1 General requirements .13 10.2 Calculation using the calibration curve 13 11 Expression ofresults .13 12 Testreport ..14 Annex A(informative)Additional information .15 AnnexB(informative)Figures .16 AnnexC (informative)Performancedata .18 iii IS0 2014-All rights reserved BSISO17378-1:2014 IS0 17378-1:2014(E) Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (IsO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out throughIsOtechnicalcommittees.Eachmemberbodyinterestedinasubjectforwhichatechnical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with Iso, also take part in the work. ISoO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnicalstandardization. The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in theISO/IEc Directives, Part 1. In particularthe different approval criteria needed for the different types of Iso documents should be noted. This document was drafted in accordance with the editorial rules oftheIso/lECDirectives,Part2 (see www.iso.org/directives). Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights.IsO shall not be held responsible for identify