Assessment of high precision, high accuracy Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy to obtain concentration uncertainties less than 0.2% with variable matrix concentrations

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 244-256

  Rabb, Savelas A ^a   Olesik, John W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical matrix effects; High accuracy; High precision; ICP OES

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOLOGY; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL MATRIX EFFECTS; EMISSION INTENSITY RATIOS;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA;

EID: 44649106562     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.11.034     Document Type: Article

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