Plasma Source Mass Spectroscopy. The New Millennium
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Author(s): G. Holland and S. Tanner (Eds)
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 0854048952
Format: hardback
427pp
Price: £69.50
Review Date: 22 November 2001
Review: These are papers given at the conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectroscopy held in Durham in September 2000. The papers are arranged in six sections: sample preparation and introduction; mass analyser instrumentation; reaction cells for ICP-MS; applications; isotope ratio measurement; and speciation. They cover a wide range of topics, including the fate of a sample as it passes through the sample introduction system, chemical resolution using reaction and collision cells, various methods of mass analysis, approaches to account for spectral interferences, hyphenation methods to enable speciation, and the results of analyses ranging from natural waters and archaeological isotope ratios to organometallic speciation in biological materials.