Production and Certification of a Unique Set of Isotope and Delta Reference Materials for Boron Isotope Determination in Geochemical, Environmental and Industrial Materials

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 161-175

  Vogl, Jochen ^a   Rosner, Martin ^a,b  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b IsoAnalysis UG   (Germany)

Author keywords

scale; Boron isotope variations; Delta reference materials; Isotope reference materials; Metrology in chemistry; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; B VALUE; BORON CONCENTRATIONS; BORON ISOTOPES; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; GRAVIMETRIC DATA; HOMOGENEITY STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS; ISOTOPE ABUNDANCE; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPE DILUTIONS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC REFERENCE MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; METROLOGY IN CHEMISTRY; NATURAL BORON; NEUTRON SHIELDING; REFERENCE MATERIAL; STABLE ISOTOPES; THERMAL IONISATION;

BORON; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 84863860622     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: 1751908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2011.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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