Elimination of boron memory effect in inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry by ammonia gas injection into the spray chamber during analysis

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 629-635

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BORON; COMPOSITION; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SOLUTIONS; TRACE ANALYSIS; WASHING;

AMMONIA GAS INJECTION; BORON MEMORY EFFECT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPRAY CHAMBER;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0033717906     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(00)00197-X     Document Type: Article

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