Advancing the analytical capabilities of laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry for boron isotopic analysis

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-50

  Sarkar, Arnab ^a,b   Mao, Xianglei ^a   Russo, Richard E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Isotopic ratio; LAMIS: Boron; PLSR; Precision

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BORON; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PLSR; PRECISION; SPECTRAL NORMALIZATION;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 84891872601     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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