Routine isotopic analysis of iron by HR-MC-ICPMS: How precise and how accurate?

Chemical Geology

Volumn 267, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 175-184

  Dauphas, Nicolas ^a,b   Pourmand, Ali ^a,b   Teng, Fang Zhen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Chromatography; HR MC ICPMS; Iron isotopes; Precision

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; IRON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECISION;

EID: 70349264318     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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