Preface (J. Sneddon). Plasma source mass spectroscopy (A.S. Fisher, L. Ebdon). Multielement graphite furnace and flame atomic absorption spectrometry (J. Sneddon, K.S.Farah). Direct current ARCS and plasma jets (R.Avni, I.B. Brenner). Direct and near real-time determination of metals in air by impaction-graphite furnace absorption spectrometry (J.Sneddon). Index.