Apparatus and reagents
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].