Detecting and circumventing sources of inaccuracy in flow analysis

Mechanized procedures for chemical analyses are susceptible to systematic e rrors usually: difficult to trace. This holds also for flow analysis that a lthough accepted worldwide map sometimes yield inaccurate results. The pres ent work focused on the development of a simple system able to detect and c ircumvent sources of inaccuracy. The versatility inherent in the multicommu ted flow analyzers was exploited for real-time characterization of the sour ce of inaccuracy and overcoming the problem for every assayed sample. Speci fic situations where the analytical results are more susceptible to inaccur acy are emphasized.