Microwave digestion of bottom sediments from Lake Baikal for the inductively coupled plasma mass-spectrometric determination of their elemental composition |
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Authors: | N A Zhuchenko E P Chebykin O G Stepanova A P Chebykin E L Gol’dberg |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Limnology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya 3, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia |
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Abstract: | A microwave digestion procedure with the use of specially designed autoclaves and a domestic microwave oven is proposed for the mass-spectrometric determination of the elemental composition of bottom sediments. The throughput of sample preparation in routine analysis was considerably increased because of the elimination of a purification step. Reaction mixture compositions and microwave digestion conditions were chosen to reach complete decomposition (within the limits of error of semiquantitative ICP MS analysis) of Baikal bottom sediments with respect to the majority of elements. It was found that the procedure is unsuitable for the determination of Sn, Zr, Nb, Hf, As, and Sb. The approximate concentrations of elements in a BIL-1 certified reference material of Baikal bottom sediments were found: Tl, 0.52 ± 0.16 ppm; Bi, 0.33 ± 0.10 ppm; I, 14.3 ± 4.3 ppm; Cd, 0.31 ± 0.09 ppm; and Pb, 0.24 ± 0.07 ppm. |
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