Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is one of the most successful direct solid sampling techniques for major, minor and trace element analysis. However, this technique still suffers from matrix dependent ablation characteristics, which makes quantification very difficult. Furthermore, the laser sampled material alters its composition from the sample to the de...

In this study, LA-ICP-MS was used to detect high-purity silver (silver content > 99.99%) in situ and real time, the of obtained by testing various impurity elements. The uncertainty copper, iron zinc with high evaluated. Meanwhile, source each component affecting studied, evaluation steps were formulated. results show that contents 99.993%, total expanded is 0.0011%. provide data support for...

Trace element analyses of marine sediments provide important information on past oceanographic and climatic changes. Five samples consisting of grey to black marls with layers of carbonate nodules (so called “Terre Noires” from a 102 m long profile from Oze, Southern France) were prepared in three different ways to find the most appropriate preparation technique for major, minor and trace eleme...

The addition of a wet aerosole containing Ba 2+ enables the imaging F in biological and geological samples via LA-ICP-MS/MS.

Particulate matter accumulated on tree bark specimens was examined in order to investigate its potential use as a natural monitor to study the impact on local atmospheric conditions. Tree bark from sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii) and sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh) trees was collected from four locations: Drax (North Yorkshire), Darley Dale (Derbyshire), Galway (Ireland) and Tristan da Cun...

The use of analytical techniques is important and critical in all areas related to REE, such as basic fundamental research, exploration, mining, extraction, metallurgical activities at different stages by industries. At every stage these activities, rock, ore, minerals, other materials have be analyzed for their REE contents terms elemental, isotopic, mineralogical concentrations using techniqu...

Provenance determination of archaeological remains is a valuable tool for reconstruction past exchange networks. Among these materials, oyster shells are ubiquitous in sites from all prehistorical and historical periods. Thus, they seem to be promising candidates provenance identification as include chemical elements the environment their shells, which implies that an elemental fingerprint regi...