The development of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), followed by the introduction of the first commercial instruments 35 years ago, was a major step forward in elemental analysis. The success of the technique in fields including materials science, environmental analysis and, more recently, biomedicine, has been driven by its increased sensitivity over other methods including atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) and inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES).

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