A novel high-temperature combustion based system for stable isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon in aqueous samples. II: Optimization and assessment of analytical performance

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 2574-2586

  Kirkels, F M S A ^a   Cerli, C ^a   Federherr, E ^b,c   Gao, J ^a   Kalbitz, K ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c ELEMENTAR ANALYSENSYSTEME GMBH   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC CARBON; STREAM FLOW; ISOTOPES;

ANALYTICAL PERFORMANCE; AQUEOUS SAMPLES; C ANALYSIS; C VALUES; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HIGH-TEMPERATURE COMBUSTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; MEMORY EFFECTS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CARBON; FRESH WATER; PLANT EXTRACT; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; HEAT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CARBON ISOTOPES; FRESH WATER; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LINEAR MODELS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL;

EID: 84922348074     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7053     Document Type: Article

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