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Freon Improves Laser-Ablation Spectrometry

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To reduce the incidence of elemental fractionation and improve the accuracy of laser ablation induction-coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the isotopic analysis of geological samples, Takafumi Hirata of Tokyo Institute of Technology suggests the addition of a refrigerant. In the Jan. 15 issue of Analytical Chemistry, the researcher reported that the delivery of Freon gas to laser ablation sites improves the precision of measurements of the 206Pb/238U ratio in ancient rocks.

Typically, the laser systems increase the Pb/U ratio by 20 to 50 percent as measurement progresses. Hirata found that exposing the ablation sites to 60 µl/min of Freon gas during the process offered a precision of 2 to 4 percent for the 1 billion-year-old and 2.4 billion-year-old zircon standards used in the experiment.
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Published: April 2003
Basic Scienceelemental fractionationisotopic analysis of geological sampleslaser ablation induction-coupled plasma mass spectrometryResearch & TechnologyspectroscopyTech Pulse

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