ICP-OES and LA-ICP-MS instruments routinely used to assess the geochemical properties of various natural synthetic materials. In this contribution, analytical routines method development procedures facilities installed at İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Geological Engineering Department, Geochronology Geochemistry Laboratory have been evaluated using well-known international rock standards. Samp...

The introduction and development of Single Particle ICP-MS (SP-ICP-MS) has opened a new area of research which allows the rapid detection and analysis of metal-based particles in a variety of matrices and applications.1-6 The key feature of SP-ICP-MS is that it allows discrete pulses of positively charged ions to be detected and measured in a time-resolved manner using microsecond (μs) data acq...

Introduction Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) typically provides detection limits in the low-ppt to sub-ppt range for all but a few of over 70 elements. Unfortunately, for a handful of elements, conventional ICP-MS cannot provide the best possible detection limits. The detection limits for these elements are limited by plasma or sample matrix-based polyatomic interferences....

Abstract Trace elements provide crucial information about the origin and evolution of Earth. One common issue regarding their analyses is reduced analyte recovery during hot plate acid digestion for some geological samples. To overcome this, alkali fluxes (e.g., Lithium borate) have been used to produce an homogeneous synthetic glass that can be then both X-ray fluorescence (XRF) laser ablation...

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) has been developed and established as an emerging technique in the generation of quantitative images of metal distributions in thin tissue sections of brain samples (such as human, rat and mouse brain), with applications in research related to neurodegenerative disorders. A new analytical protocol is described which include...