Common Problems with Hg, Au, Si, Os and Na

Sodium (Na)

The single most common problem with Na is contamination. Sodium is literally everywhere. Thousands of tons of salt are transferred from the ocean to the air in the form of sub-micron particulates and can travel for hundreds of miles inland. For more information on contamination, please refer to the following sections of our Trace Analysis series:

• Environmental Contamination
  
  
• Contamination From Reagents
  
  
• Contamination From the Analyst and Apparatus
  
  
• Na elemental data

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