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TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 497-511Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2008.05.003
Keywords
automation; clean analytical chemistry; decontamination; environmentally-friendly method; green analytical chemistry; miniaturization; passivation; sample pretreatment; toxic reagent; waste
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We discuss the origins and the fundamentals of Green Analytical Chemistry (GAC), based on the literature published about clean, environmentally-friendly or GAC methods. We pay special attention to the strategies and the tools available to make sample-pretreatment and analytical methods greener. We consider that the main principles are to replace toxic reagents, to miniaturize and to automate methods, making it possible to reduce dramatically the amounts of reagents consumed and wastes generated, so reducing or avoiding side effects of analytical methods. We also consider on-line decontamination or passivation of wastes to be of special interest in making analytical chemistry sustainable. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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