%0 Journal Article %K Particle %K Ablation %K Laser %K Laser ablation %K Laser ablation %K Inductively coupled plasma (icp) %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

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.