Inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry (ICP–AES)

Inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry (ICP–AES) is now established as one of the most widely used techniques of elemental analysis. ICP–AES was developed as an experimental technique during the 1960s, commercially available instruments became available in the 1970s, and during the 1980s it was established as the method of choice in a great diversity of application fields.