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Quality Assurance Practices For the Chemical and Biological Analyses of Water and Fluvial Sediments

U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Book 5, Chapter A6

By Linda C. Friedman and David E. Erdmann


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Section 1 -- 1.65 MB

Preface

Contributors

Abstract

Introduction

Analytical methods development procedures

 

Section 2 -- 1.92 MB

Standard quantitative analysis technique

Instrumental techniques

 

Section 3 -- 1.71 MB

Instrumental techniques (cont'd)

Reference material

Laboratory quality control

 

Section 4 -- 2.40 MB

Laboratory quality control (cont'd)

 

Section 5 -- 1.54 MB

Quality assurance monitoring

Documentation, summary, and evaluation of data

 

Section 6 -- 1.38 MB

Documentation, summary, and evaluation of data (cont'd)

 

Section 7 -- 1.34 MB

Materials evaluation

Appendix

 


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