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Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) was used as a powerful multielement analytical method for trace analysis of geological glasses which are useful as reference materials for geochemical in-situ microanalytical work. The quantification of the analytical results was carried out using the BCR-2G and NIST 612 glass standard reference material (SRM). The experimentally determined relative sensitivity coefficients (RSC) for both SRMs vary between 0.2 and 3 for most of the elements, with increasing mass an increasing of relative sensitivity coefficients was observed. The relative standard deviation (RSD) for determination of trace element concentration of most elements (N=3) are between 2 and 10%. The determination of trace elements in various geological glasses by LA-ICP-MS yielded a good agreement with the reference values and those results of other trace analytical methods.
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Received October 15, 1999. Revision April 14, 2000.
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Becker, J., Pickhardt, C. & Dietze, HJ. Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Determination of Trace Elements in Geological Glasses. Mikrochim Acta 135, 71–80 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s006040070020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s006040070020