Determination of rare earth impurities in high purity europium oxide by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry and evaluation of concentration values for europium oxide standard material

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 589-598

  Zhang, Anding ^a   Liu, Xiangsheng ^b   Zhang, Wen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Beijing Gen Res Inst Non F   (China)

Author keywords

Evaluation of concentration values; High purity europium oxide; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; DYSPROSIUM; ERBIUM; EUROPIUM; GADOLINIUM; HOLMIUM; LANTHANIDE; LANTHANUM; LUTETIUM; NEODYMIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; TERBIUM; YTTERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EUROPIUM; METALS, RARE EARTH; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 10044284371     PISSN: 14690667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1255/ejms.667     Document Type: Article

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