Flux-Free Fusion of Silicate Rock Preceding Acid Digestion for ICP-MS Bulk Analysis

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-55

  Shimizu, Kenji ^a   Chang, Qing ^a   Nakamura, Kentaro ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flux free fusion; Geological reference materials; Granite; ICP MS; Trace element determination

Indexed keywords

ACID DIGESTION; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTY; BULK ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL REFERENCE MATERIALS; GRANITIC ROCKS; ICP-MS; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; PLATINUM CRUCIBLES; POWDERED SAMPLES; QUADRUPOLES; ROCK SAMPLE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SAMPLE SOLUTION; SILICATE ROCKS; TRACE ELEMENT DETERMINATION; TUBE FURNACES;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BARIUM; CESIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GRANITE; HAFNIUM; HEATING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLATINUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; ROCKS; RUBIDIUM; SCANDIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM; TRACE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; ZIRCON DEPOSITS; ZIRCONIUM;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 79951925172     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: 1751908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2010.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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