Laser ablation in analytical chemistry
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Laser ablation in connection with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) represents one of the most sensitive methods for elemental analysis of solids. It allows analysis of all types solid samples regardless of their conductivity/non-conductivity, optical properties... Thus, it can be analyzed wide range of materials; steels, ceramics, geological samples, biological materials (leaves, tumors, teeth, bones...) and archaeological materials. Contrary to analysis of solutions by means of ICP-MS, LA-ICP-MS allows analysis without decomposition of solid sample, elemental mapping and local microanalysis. We present application of LA-ICP-MS for analysis of geological samples (mapping granitoids samples), biological samples (mapping tumor tissues), steel samples (study of corrosion processes) and archaeological samples (provenience of obsidians). |
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