1 Scope
This part of ISO 17072 specifies a method for the determination of the total metal content in leather using digestion of the leather and subsequent determination with inductively coupled plasma/optical emission spectrometry (ICP/OES), or inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry (ICP/MS), or atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) or spectrometry of atomic fluorescence (SFA).
This method determines the total metal content in leather; it is not compound-specific or specific to the oxidation state of the metals.
The method is applicable for determining the following metals:
Aluminium (Al)
Copper (Cu)
Potassium (K)
Antimony (Sb)
Iron (Fe)
Selenium (Se)
Arsenic (As)
Lead (Pb)
Silicon (Si)
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