Authors: Teng, Jiuwei¹; Barshick, Christopher M.²; Duckworth, Douglas C.²; Morton, Shelby J.²; Smith, David H.²; King, Fred L.¹

Source: Applied Spectroscopy, Volume 49, Issue 9, Pages 14A-28A and 1215-1370 (September 1995) , pp. 1361-1366(6)

Publisher: Society for Applied Spectroscopy

Abstract:

The influence of oxygen content, conducting host matrix, and soil composition on the quantitative determination of trace elements in soils by glow discharge mass spectrometry was examined. Oxygen content and conducting host matrix identity influenced relative sensitivity factors employed in the quantitative interpretation of the glow discharge mass spectra. Soil composition did not influence these relative sensitivity factors. Unknown soils taken from the field were analyzed with the use of a set of relative sensitivity factors obtained from standard soils with certified compositions. The quantitative results from glow discharge mass spectrometry of these unknowns compared favorably with quantitative results from inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and laser ablation solid sampling inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Keywords: Glow discharge mass spectrometry; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectro; Soil analysis; Geological analysis; Relative sensitivity factors

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1366/0003702953965380

Affiliations: 1: Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 2: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

Publication date: 1995-09-01

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