Combined use of medium mass resolution and desolvation introduction system for accurate plutonium determination in the femtogram range by inductively coupled plasma-sector-field mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 261-267

  Pointurier, Fabien ^a   Pottin, Anne Claire ^a   Hémet, Philippe ^a   Hubert, Amélie ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Desolvation introduction system; ICP MS; Molecular interference; Plutonium; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DETECTION; DESOLVATION; DETECTION LIMITS; FALSE DETECTIONS; HEAVY ELEMENTS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; ICP-MS; ICP-SFMS; IN-LINE; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; INSTRUMENTAL DETECTION; INTERFERING SPECIES; LOW MASS; LR METHOD; MASS RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MICRO-CONCENTRIC NEBULIZERS; MOLECULAR INTERFERENCE; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; POLYATOMIC INTERFERENCES; POLYATOMIC SPECIES; SAMPLE SOLUTION; SPRAY CHAMBER; SYNTHETIC SOLUTIONS; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

ARGON; CHEMICAL DETECTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IRIDIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD OXIDE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (METAL); NITROGEN PLASMA; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

PLUTONIUM;

EID: 79957865317     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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