REE Analyses in Some Geological Standard Reference Materials utilizing LA-ICP-MS and ICP-MS Techniques

ICP-OES, ICP-MS and AAS Techniques Compared

This article will briefly describe these three techniques, and point out the important criteria by which to judge their applicability to your own analytical problems. Table 1 below shows a checklist of common analytical requirements and may help in the assessment of the techniques. For many people with an ICP-OES background, ICP-MS is a plasma with a mass spectrometer as a detector. Mass spectr...

Agilent 8800 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS: Understanding oxygen reaction mode in ICP-MS/MS

The use of oxygen as a reaction gas for the removal of interferences in quadrupole ICP-MS is well established. However, prior to the development of the Agilent 8800 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS (ICP-QQQ), the use of oxygen had been limited to determination of a small number of analytes in simple, well defined matrices. This is because oxygen can react with matrix components, analytes and polyatomic...

Metal in Ureilites: Siderophile Elements from La-icp-ms

Introduction: Bulk ureilites have near chondritic abundances of siderophile elements [1-7], showing no correlation with Fe contents (~5-16 wt.%) or mg (molar Mg/[Mg+Fe]). These observations are difficult to reconcile with any igneous model for their silicates [8]. We address this problem through detailed characterization of the metal phases in ureilites [9], and petrologic modelling [10]. Here ...

Practical Guide to ICP-MS

Petrogenesis of Augite-Bearing Ureilites: A LA-ICP-MS Approach

1,2 , M. Humayun 1 , H. Downes 3 , S. Singletary 4 , J. A. Van Orman 5 and S. B. Jacobsen 2 1 National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Geological Sciences, [email protected]; 2 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; 3 School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck University of London; 4 Department of Natural Sciences, Fayetteville State University; 5 Departm...