Application of a particle separation device to reduce inductively coupled plasma-enhanced elemental fractionation in laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-220

  Guillong, Marcel ^a   Kuhn, Hans Rudolf ^a   Günther, Detlef ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Fractionation; Laser ablation; Particle size

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CALIBRATION; CENTRIFUGES; FRACTIONATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IONIZATION; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

CENTRIFUGAL FORCES;

PARTICLE SEPARATORS;

EID: 0037415581     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(02)00257-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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