Improving boron isotope ratio measurement precision with quadrupole inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1861-1867

  Al Ammar, Assad ^a   Reitznerová, Eva ^a   Barnes, Ramon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BORON; LITHIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEAWATER; STANDARDIZATION;

COMMON ANALYTE INTERNAL STANDARDIZATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPE RATIO;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 0034497363     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(00)00282-2     Document Type: Article

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