Teach Me in 10 – An Introduction to ICP-OES With Ross Ashdown

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Published: November 5, 2020

Karen Steward, PhD

In this installment of Teach Me in 10, we're joined by Ross Ashdown, who talks us through the basics of inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry, or ICP-OES.

ICP-OES is able to detect and quantify ~80% of the periodic table. It is a technique that is adopted by scientists from a wide variety of different research fields. But how does it work? What are its components? What are some of the common applications of this technique?

Ross explains all in this Teach Me in 10 video.

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Karen Steward, PhD

Senior Scientific Specialist

Karen Steward holds a PhD in molecular microbiology and evolutionary genetics from the University of Cambridge. She moved into science writing in 2017 after over a decade as a research scientist.