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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART B-ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 100, Issue -, Pages 44-51Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2014.08.006
Keywords
Liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge; LS-APGD; Matrix effects; Excitation conditions; Plasma robustness
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
- Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
- Assistant Deputy Administrator for Nonproliferation Research and Development of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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The liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge (LS-APGD) microplasma was evaluated with regard to its spectrochemical robustness in its application as a miniaturized optical emission spectroscopy (OES) source for liquid samples. The susceptibility to perturbations in excitation/ionization conditions was probed across a wide range test species, including transition metals, easily ionized elements (group I), and elements with low second ionization potentials (group II). Spectrochemical metrics included the plasma excitation temperature (T-exc), ionization temperatures (T-ion), and magnesium (Mg) ionic: atomic (Mg II:Mg I) ratios. The introduction of the 11 different matrix elements into the LS-APGD at concentrations of 500 mu g mL(-1) yielded no significant changes in the optically-determined plasma characteristics, indicating a relative immunity to spectrochemical matrix effects. T-exe values for the plasma, using He I as the spectrometric species averaged 2769 +/- 79 K across the test matrix, with Mg-based ionization temperature values centered at 6665 +/- 151 K. Typical Mg II:Mg I ratios (the so-called robustness parameter) were 0.95 +/- 03. The lack of appreciable perturbation in excitation/ionization conditions observed here is also manifested in virtually no changes in the probe Mg II and I species' intensities, even at matrix loadings of up to 1000 mu g mL(-1) of Ba. These observations indicate that the IS-APGD could serve as an OES source for the analysis of diverse aqueous samples without appreciable spectroscopic matrix effects, though potential physical matrix effects induding vaporization effects must be evaluated. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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