Determination of plutonium and other transuranic elements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: A historical perspective and new frontiers in the environmental sciences

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 719-737

  Ketterer, Michael E ^a   Szechenyi, Scott C ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth environmental processes; Environment; ICPMS; Marine tracer; Transuranic elements

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMA (HUMAN); PLASMAS; PLUTONIUM; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT (HT); HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA- MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS); MASS ANALYZERS; SAMPLE PREPARATIONS; SAMPLE THROUGHPUT; SPECTROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; TRANSURANIC (TRU) ELEMENTS; TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS (TRU);

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 46149085121     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2008.04.018     Document Type: Review

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