The biological material was disrupted in an Ethos D
(Type Ethos plus 1) microwave lab station from
Milestone Inc., (Monroe, CT, USA) equipped with
TFM (fluoroplastic) closed vessels. The power system
used with a focused microwave apparatus provides
continuous microwave emission at each power level. The
system is a closed-vessel microwave system, but it is
equipped with a fume extraction system. Total iodine (I)
was determined with a Thermo electron X7 inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometry [ICP-MS, (Model X
series), Winsford-Cheshire, UK].