Examination of the performance exhibited by a single detector double focusing magnetic sector ICP-MS instrument for uranium isotope abundance ratio measurements over almost three orders of magnitude and down to pg g-1 concentration levels

Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 353-358

  Quetel C R ^a   Prohaska, T ^b   Hamester, M ^a   Kerl, W ^a   Taylor, P D P ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Finnigan MAT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DETECTORS; ISOTOPES; PERFORMANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; URANIUM;

DOUBLE FOCUSING MAGNETIC SECTOR SINGLE DETECTOR; ISOTOPE ABUNDANCE RATIO MEASUREMENT; POISSON STATISTICS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0242264237     PISSN: 02679477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a907084b     Document Type: Article

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