“…However, the difficulty of the accurate determination of the isotopic abundance of boron has been pointed out because of the interference from 12 C + 25,29,30 or the influence of co-existing ions like Na + 28 in the ICP-MS measurements. Substoichiometric isotope dilution mass spectrometry (SIDMS), which consists of substoichiometric separation of an element in question and only measurement of an proper isotope with a mass spectrometer, has several advantages, [31][32][33] i.e., (1) the quantitative recovery of the element is not required, (2) no calibration standards or curves are necessary, (3) measurement of isotopic abundance is not necessary, and (4) correction for the mass discrimination in the mass spectrometer is not necessary. Therefore, the analytical procedure in SIDMS is much more simple and rapid than that in general IDMS.…”