Changes in plasma composition during the expansion into the first vacuum stage of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1031-1038

  Macedone, Jeffrey H ^a   Farnsworth, Paul B ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Ion electron recombination; Laser induced fluorescence; Plasma conditions

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUENCHING;

COLLISIONAL QUENCHING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; ION ELECTRON RECOMBINATION; PLASMA CONDITIONS;

PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES;

EID: 33751250789     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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