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The concentration of 18 elements in different cane sugar products, i.e., cane sugar plants, crude and syrup juices, molasses, and the end products of the consumer sugar, were analyzed and processed. The samples were collected from five citics, i.e., Kom Ombo, Edfu, Armant, Deshna and Naga Hammady in Upper Egypt where the main Egyptian sugar industry factories are located. INAA was applied for the determination of Al, Ca, Cl, Co, Cr, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na and Sc, while Cu, Li, P, Sn, V and Zn were determined by ICP-AES and Pb and As were determined by AAS. These three analytical methods were applied to optimize the sensitivity and the accuracy of the measurements in order to provide a sound basis for the obtention of reliable clustering results.
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Awadallah, R.M., Ismail, S.S. & Mohamed, A.E. Application of multi-element clustering techniques of five Egyptian industrial sugar products. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 196, 377–385 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02038058
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02038058