Re-evaluating digestion methods for highly siderophile element and 187Os isotope analysis: Evidence from geological reference materials

Chemical Geology

Volumn 384, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-46

  Ishikawa, Akira ^a,b   Senda, Ryoko ^b   Suzuki, Katsuhiko ^b   Dale, Christopher W ^c   Meisel, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Digestion methods; Highly siderophile elements; ICP MS; Isotope dilution analysis; N TIMS; Re Os isotope

Indexed keywords

BASALT; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRIDIUM; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; MICROWAVE TUBES; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RUTHENIUM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; GEOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

DIGESTION METHOD; HIGHLY SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; ICP-MS; ISOTOPE DILUTION ANALYSIS; N-TIMS; RE-OS ISOTOPES;

OSMIUM;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; DILUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

EID: 84904335597     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.06.013     Document Type: Article

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