Calibration Strategies and Quality Assurance

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 147-181

  Vogl, Jochen ^a  

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

Author keywords

Certified reference materials (CRMs); Conventional true value; Isobaric interferences; Isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS); Mass discrimination effects; Semi quantitative calibration; Total dissolved solids (TDS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889629356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305463.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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