Biomonitoring for manganese (Mn) exposure is important due to its potential to cause adverse health effects. In this study, we investigate how different sample preparation methods (simple dilution, digestion, volumetric, gravimetric), calibration protocols (aqueous, blood-based, standard additions), and instrumental techniques affect Mn method bias and analytical imprecision. The techniques use...

Abstract. The same unetched and chemically etched apatite crystals from five rock samples were dated by the U–Pb method via laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA–ICP-MS). objective of this study is to test whether chemical etching required for fission track analysis impacts precision accuracy geochronology. results experiment suggest that has insignificant effects on a...

Single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SP-ICP-MS) refers to the use of ICP-MS as a counting technique. When measurements are performed at very high data acquisition frequencies,...

• Multi-Element Analysis Introduction Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) has developed over recent years to become a sophisticated tool for the multielemental and isotope ratio analysis of solid samples. Besides a true multi-elemental capability, independent of matrix, the major requirements for most geological laser applications in ICP-MS are the highest se...

Thiol-containing compounds such as glutathione, cysteine and homocysteine react with selenite under specific conditions to form selenotrisulfides of significance in cellular systems. This study describes the synthesis and mass spectrometric characterization of selenotrisulfides of glutathione (GSH), cysteine (Cys) and homocysteine (HCys) by electrospray-MS (ESI-MS). The synthesized species are ...

Like in the previously published LA-ICP-MS method, sample itself acts as perfectly matrix matched reference material, but combination with isotope dilution improves uncertainty and accuracy of novel LA-ID-ICP-MS method.