High efficiency nebulization for helium inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 945-950

  Jorabchi, Kaveh ^a   McCormick, Ryan ^a   Levine, Jonathan A ^a   Liu, Huiying ^a   Nam, Sang Ho ^a   Montaser, Akbar ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Helium inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; High efficiency nebulizer

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CONDENSERS (LIQUEFIERS); HELIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

DETECTION LIMITS; HIGH EFFICIENCY NEBULIZERS; ULTRASONIC NEBULIZERS;

PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33750359406     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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