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Chromatographic purification of antimony for accurate isotope analysis by MC-ICP-MS TEXT SIZE: A A A
A two-step method for purifying antimony (Sb) from geological samples for accurate measurement of Sb isotopic composition using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) was developed. Sb was separated from the matrix using two successive chromatographic columns loaded with AG 1-X4 and AG 50W-X8 resin, respectively. The separation method was calibrated using geological samples by assessing the extraction yield and the reproducibility of the measured isotopic composition, and resulted in a relatively low procedure blank and better recovery (98.7% +/- 5.6%,n= 8, 2SD) compared to previous studies. The validation of the whole protocol, together with instrumental analysis, was confirmed by the investigation of the matrix effect and the result of a standard addition experiment. A combined sample-standard bracketing and external normalization (SSB-EN) method using cadmium (Cd) as an internal element was used for mass bias correction, which gave a reproducibility better than 0.04 parts per thousand (2SD). A variation of 0.29 parts per thousand of the delta Sb-123 value (relative to the NIST SRM 3102a standard) was observed in artificial and geological samples, implying the potential application of Sb isotopes in various environments.
 

Publication name

 JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY Volume: 35 Issue: 7 Pages: 1360-1367 DOI: 10.1039/d0ja00136h Published: JUL 1 2020

Author(s)

 Liu, Jianfeng; Chen, Jiubin; Zhang, Ting; Wang, Yina; Yuan, Wei; Lang, Yunchao; Tu, Chenglong; Liu, Liangzhi; Birck, Jean-Louis

Corresponding author(s) 

 CHEN Jiubin 
 jbchen@tju.edu.cn   
 Tianjin Univ, Inst Surface Earth Syst Sci, Tianjin 300072, Peoples R China.

Author(s) from IGCAS   LIU Jianfeng

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