Aerosol characterization of concentric pneumatic nebulizer used in inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(ICP-MS)

Atomization and Sprays

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 415-433

  Kashani, A ^a   Mostaghimi, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerosol characterization; Concentric pneumatic nebulizer; ICP MS; Maximum entropy principle modeling; Nukiyama tanasawa correlation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CHARACTERIZATION; CONCENTRIC PNEUMATIC NEBULIZER; ICP-MS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; NUKIYAMA-TANASAWA CORRELATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; ENTROPY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NOZZLE DESIGN; PNEUMATICS; SPECTROMETRY; SPRAY NOZZLES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 78650083257     PISSN: 10445110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.v20.i5.40     Document Type: Article

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