NDLI: Mass discrimination correction in multiple-collector plasma source mass spectrometry: an example using Cu and Zn isotopes

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Vance, Derek Archer, Corey
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Multiple-collector magnetic sector ICP-MS affords the possibility of applying instrumental mass discrimination corrections using a reference isotope ratio of an element (dopant) other than the analyte. Much attention has focused on the use of this approach for lead isotope analysis using a thallium dopant and the technique has also been applied to copper–zinc isotope analysis. The most successful applications of the doping approach have established empirical mass bias relationships between dopant and analyte isotope ratios but this often has to be done for single analytical sessions. Insufficient intra-session variation in mass discrimination often leads to poor constraints on these relationships. Moreover, with the Tl–Pb system there is some doubt over whether samples and standards exhibit the same relationship. Here we show that for the Cu–Zn system, two improvements on previous approaches lead to precise and accurate isotope ratios for unknowns. Firstly, addition of Sr to mixed Cu–Zn standard solutions generates extreme variation in mass bias so that empirical mass bias relationships between analyte and dopant are much better constrained. Secondly, we show that inadequate chemistry, specifically the inefficient removal of matrix Fe and Ti, seriously compromises the Cu–Zn isotope analysis of samples but that with clean chemistry, samples with complex matrices demonstrably yield similar mass discrimination relationships between Cu and Zn isotopes to standards. We also document previously unreported aspects of Cu–Zn isotope analysis: (1) that Cu–Zn mass bias relationships depend critically on the Cu/Zn ratio of the solution; (2) that for an introduction system with a desolvating membrane, the behaviour of standards is highly variable, perhaps due to variations in the oxidation state of Cu in the solution, and that this can be overcome by the passage of standards through the ion exchange procedure used to purify samples. Finally, we document chemical separation and mass spectrometric techniques that permit the isotopic analysis of order of magnitude smaller samples than previously achieved and report values for BCR-1 basalt standard of δ66Zn = 0.20 ± 0.09‰ (n = 12) and δ65Cu = 0.07 ± 0.08‰ (n = 6) at the 95% confidence level.
Starting Page	656
Ending Page	665
Page Count	10
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	02679477
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	5
Journal	Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
DOI	10.1039/b315853e
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cu Isotope Dopant Analyte Thallium Computational chemistry Positive-definite matrix Ion Basalt
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Spectroscopy Analytical Chemistry

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