Calibration of the New Certified Reference Materials ERM-AE633 and ERM-AE647 for Copper and IRMM-3702 for Zinc Isotope Amount Ratio Determinations

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-199

  Moeller, Kirsten ^a   Schoenberg, Ronny ^a,b   Pedersen, Rolf Birger ^a   Weiss, Dominik ^c   Dong, Shuofei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copper; Double spike; Enriched isotope addition.; Reference material; Stable isotopes; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROTOCOLS; CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC PROCEDURE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC PURIFICATION; CROSS CALIBRATION; DOUBLE SPIKE; ENRICHED ISOTOPE ADDITION.; GEOLOGICAL REFERENCE MATERIAL; ISOTOPE AMOUNT RATIO; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE RATIO; LITERATURE DATA; MASS BIAS CORRECTION; MC-ICP-MS; NI-DOPING; REFERENCE MATERIAL; STABLE ISOTOPES; ZINC ISOTOPES;

CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COPPER; ION EXCHANGE; MATERIALS; ZINC;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 84863862323     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: 1751908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2011.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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