Correction of Instrumental Mass Discrimination for Isotope Ratio Determination with Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Isotopic Analysis: Fundamentals and Applications Using ICP-MS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-137

  Meija, Juris ^a   Yang, Lu ^a   Mester, Zoltán ^a   Sturgeon, Ralph E ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; Double spike. uncertainty; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Instrumental mass discrimination; Isotope ratio; Multi collector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885557986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527650484.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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