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WE have found the following to be a particularly rapid and reproducible means of assaying for selenium in leafy plant material. It is based on the use of perchloric acid and H2O2 to facilitate digestion and clarification of the sample and on the spectrophotometric determination of the elemental selenium produced on reduction of the combined forms of the element. Our method represents, in part, a combination ot techniques recently found useful for higher plant and microbial material1–3.
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DUFF, R., CHESSIN, M. Rapid Method for Selenium Assay of Plant Material. Nature 208, 1001 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081001b0
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