Effectiveness of ammonia in reducing carbon-based polyatomic ion interferences in electrothermal vaporization collision cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 361-372

  Ben Younes, Mufida ^a   Gregoire, D Conrad ^b   Chakrabarti, C L ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cr; Dynamic reaction cell; Electrothermal vaporization; ICP MS; Mg; Polyatomic ions; Si; Solution nebulization

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REDUCTION; SILICON; VAPORIZATION;

POLYATOMIC ION INTERFERENCES;

AMMONIA;

EID: 0037415622     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(02)00149-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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