A high-throughput system for boron microsublimation and isotope analysis by total evaporation thermal ionization mass spectrometry

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1705-1714

  Liu, Yi Wei ^a   Aciego, Sarah M ^a   Wanamaker, Alan D ^b   Sell, Bryan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BORIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION RATES; EVAPORATION; IONIZATION; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SAMPLING; SEAWATER; THROUGHPUT;

ATMOSPHERIC CO 2; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SYSTEMS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OCEAN CARBON CYCLE; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; SAMPLE SIZES; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BORON;

EID: 84879901477     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6619     Document Type: Article

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