Investigation into the behavior of metal-argon polyatomic ions (MAr +) in the extraction region of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 76, Issue , 2012, Pages 119-125

  Ebert, Chris H ^a   Witte, Travis M ^a   Houk, R S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ICP; ICP mass spectrometry; Inductively coupled plasma; MAr+ ions; Polyatomic ions

Indexed keywords

ALL METAL; COLLISION INDUCED DISSOCIATION; EXPECTED VALUES; GUARD ELECTRODES; HIGH TRANSMISSION; ICP; ICP-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ION KINETIC ENERGY; LIGHT IONS; PLASMA CONDITIONS; PLASMA POTENTIAL; POLYATOMIC ION; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA; WIDE GAP;

ARGON; CHROMIUM; COPPER; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MANGANESE;

IONS;

EID: 84867398132     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2012.06.046     Document Type: Article

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