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Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas

Nitrous oxide (N(2)O) was investigated as the reaction gas for the determination of rare earth elements (REEs) by inductively coupled plasma–tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS). The use of N(2)O as the reaction gas apparently improved the yields of ( m )M(16)O(+) for Eu and Yb in the r...

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Autor principal: Zhu, Yanbei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35844636
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.912938
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description Nitrous oxide (N(2)O) was investigated as the reaction gas for the determination of rare earth elements (REEs) by inductively coupled plasma–tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS). The use of N(2)O as the reaction gas apparently improved the yields of ( m )M(16)O(+) for Eu and Yb in the reaction cell. As a result, the sensitivities for measurement of Eu and Yb were apparently improved in comparison to those obtained with O(2) as the reaction gas. A high sensitivity measurement of the whole set of REEs was achieved, providing a typical sensitivity of 300,000 CPS mL/ng for REEs measured with an isotope having isotopic abundance close to 100%. The use of N(2)O as the reaction gas helped suppress Ba-related spectral interferences with the measurement of Eu, permitting the measurement of Eu in a natural sample without mathematic correction of spectral interferences. The detection limits (unit, pg/mL) for 14 REEs (except for Pm) from La to Lu were 0.028, 0.018, 0.006, 0.026, 0.006, 0.010, 0.017, 0.006, 0.016, 0.010, 0.016, 0.004, 0.023, and 0.012, respectively. The validity of the present method was confirmed by determining REEs in river water-certified reference materials, namely, SLRS-3 and SLRS-4.
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spelling pubmed-92773402022-07-14 Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas Zhu, Yanbei Front Chem Chemistry Nitrous oxide (N(2)O) was investigated as the reaction gas for the determination of rare earth elements (REEs) by inductively coupled plasma–tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS). The use of N(2)O as the reaction gas apparently improved the yields of ( m )M(16)O(+) for Eu and Yb in the reaction cell. As a result, the sensitivities for measurement of Eu and Yb were apparently improved in comparison to those obtained with O(2) as the reaction gas. A high sensitivity measurement of the whole set of REEs was achieved, providing a typical sensitivity of 300,000 CPS mL/ng for REEs measured with an isotope having isotopic abundance close to 100%. The use of N(2)O as the reaction gas helped suppress Ba-related spectral interferences with the measurement of Eu, permitting the measurement of Eu in a natural sample without mathematic correction of spectral interferences. The detection limits (unit, pg/mL) for 14 REEs (except for Pm) from La to Lu were 0.028, 0.018, 0.006, 0.026, 0.006, 0.010, 0.017, 0.006, 0.016, 0.010, 0.016, 0.004, 0.023, and 0.012, respectively. The validity of the present method was confirmed by determining REEs in river water-certified reference materials, namely, SLRS-3 and SLRS-4. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9277340/ /pubmed/35844636 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.912938 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas
title Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas
title_full Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas
title_fullStr Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas
title_full_unstemmed Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas
title_short Determination of Rare Earth Elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry With Nitrous Oxide as the Reaction Gas
title_sort determination of rare earth elements by inductively coupled plasma–tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry with nitrous oxide as the reaction gas
topic Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35844636
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.912938
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