Signal enhancements produced from externally generated 'carrier' particles in electrothermal vaporization-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 753-766

  Venable, John D ^a   Holcombe, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; IONIZATION; IONS; KINETIC ENERGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PYROLYSIS;

CARRIER EFFECT; ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIZATION; ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION; HYDROGEN GAS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT;

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EID: 0034225017     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(00)00205-6     Document Type: Article

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