%0 Journal Article
%K particle
%K ablation
%K laser
%K laser ablation
%K laser-ablation
%K inductively coupled plasma
%K inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
%K inductively-coupled-plasma
%K laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass
%K mass
%K mass spectrometry
%K mass-spectrometry
%K plasma
%K plasma mass spectrometry
%K plasma-mass-spectrometry
%K spectrometry
%K size
%K particle-size
%A Chunyi Liu
%A Xianglei Mao
%A Jhanis J Gonzalez
%A Richard E Russo
%B J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom.
%D 2005
%F Laser
%G eng
%M 167
%P 200-203
%T Study of particle size influence on laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using an in-line cascade impactor
%V 20
%2 LBNL-58652
%X <p>An in-line cascade impactor was used as a low pass filter to study the effects of particles on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) performance. The temporal relative standard deviation (TRSD), which represents the short term internal precision during repetitive ablation, was improved from 20% to 4% by removing large particles ablated from brass alloys. External precision for spot to spot measurements on a bulk sample was improved to approximately 2%. The ablated aerosol chemistry was particle size dependent: smaller particles were zinc rich while larger particles were copper rich.</p>