Elimination of boron memory effect in inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry by addition of ammonia

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1077-1084

  Al Ammar, Assad ^a   Gupta, Rajesh K ^a   Barnes, Ramon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BORON; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; INORGANIC ACIDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; VAPORIZATION;

BORON MEMORY EFFECT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP MS);

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0033526669     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(99)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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