High pressure asher digestion and an isotope dilution-ICP-MS method for the determination of platinum-group element concentrations in chromitite reference materials CHR-Bkg, GAN Pt-1 and HHH

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-96

  Paliulionyte, Vaida ^a   Meisel, Thomas ^a   Ramminger, Peter ^b   Kettisch, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

^c ANTON PAAR GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromitite reference material; Digestion method; ICP MS; Isotope dilution; PGE analysis; Sample inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847147677     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908x.2006.tb00915.x     Document Type: Article

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