BS EN ISO BRITISH STANDARD 15587-2:2002 BS6068-2.77: 2002 Incorporating Corrigendum No. 1 Water quality - Digestion for the determination of selected elementsin water - Part 2: Nitric acid digestion The European Standard EN IS0 15587-2:2002 has the status of a British Standard ICS 13.060.50 BSi NOCOPYINGWITHOUTBSIPERMISSIONEXCEPTASPERMITTEDBYCOPYRIGHTLAW BS EN IS0 15587-2:2002 National foreword This British Standard is the official English language version of EN ISO 15587-2:2002. It is identical with ISO 15587-2:2002. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted by Technical Committee EH/3, Water quality, to Subcommittee EH/3/2, Physical, chemical and biochemical methods, which has the responsibility to: aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed; monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This is one of a series of standards on water quality, others of which have been, or will be, published as Sections of BS 6068. The various Sections of BS 6068 arecomprisedwithinParts1to 7,which,togetherwithPart O,arelisted below. PartoIntroduction Part 1 Glossary Part 2 Physical, chemical and biochemical methods Part 3 Radiological methods Part4Microbiologicalmethods Part 5 Biological methods Part 6 Sampling Part 7 Precision and accuracy NOTE The tests described in this British Standard should only be carried out by suitably qualified persons with an appropriate level of chemical expertise. Standard chemical procedures should befollowed throughout. Cross-references The British Standards which implement international or European publications referred to in this document may be found in the BsI Standards Catalogue under the section entitled “International Standards Correspondence Index", or by using the “Find" facility of the BSI Standards Electronic Catalogue. A British Standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users of British Standards are responsible for their correct application. Compliance with a British Standard does not ofitself confer immunity This British Standard, having been prepared under the from legal obligations. directionof the Health and Environment Sector Policy and Strategy Committee,was Summary of pages published under the authority This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the EN title page, oftheStandardsPolicy and Strategy Committee on Annex ZA page, an inside back cover and a back cover. 28March 2002 The BSI copyright date displayed in this document indicates when the document was last issued. Amendments issued since publication BSI24May2002 Amd. No. Date Comments 13918 24 May 2002 Incorporating Annex ZA and correction to Corr. No. 1 EN ISO Foreword ISBN0580392538 EN ISO 15587-2 EUROPEANSTANDARD NORME EUROPEENNE EUROPAISCHE NORM March 2002 ICS13.060.50 English version Water quality - Digestion for the determination of selected elements in water - Part 2: Nitric acid digestion (ISO 15587- 2:2002) Qualite de I'eau - Digestion pour la deétermination de Wasserbeschaffenheit - Aufschluss fur die Bestimmung certains éléments dans I'eau - Partie 2: Digestion a I'acide ausgewahlter Elemente in Wasser - Teil 2: Salpetersaure- nitrique (ISO 15587-2:2002) Aufschluss (ISO15587-2:2002) This European Standard was approved by CEN on 1 March 2002. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained onapplication to the Management Centre orto any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in