Gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry of recalcitrant target compounds: Performance of different combustion reactors and strategies for standardization

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1053-1060

  Reinnicke, Sandra ^a   Juchelka, Dieter ^b   Steinbeiss, Sibylle ^a   Meyer, Armin ^a   Hilkert, Andreas ^b   Elsner, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COPPER OXIDES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NICKEL OXIDE; NITROGEN; STANDARDIZATION;

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW; DESETHYLATRAZINE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-ISOTOPE-RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRIES; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC SUBSTANCES; PERFORMANCE; STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS; TARGET COMPOUND;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84859234362     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6199     Document Type: Article

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