Improved determination of technologically critical elements in sediment digests by ICP-MS/MS using N<sub>2</sub>O as a reaction gas

Klein, Ole; Zimmermann, Tristan; Pröfrock, Daniel

doi:10.1039/d1ja00088h

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“…5, N2O, CO2, and CH4 were also used in multiple reports instead of the default cell gases. By using N2O as the cell gas, the production rate of the oxide ions of (Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Se), 1 Sr, 3,68 Br, 8 Ba, 23 (Ge, Eu, Yb) 29 and Ra, 28,45 is greatly improved in comparison to those obtained by using O2 as the cell gas. This feature provides a higher sensitivity and/or a better separation of spectral interference.…”

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“…Research fields and objectives. The research fields of the above references covered biology, 1-15 energy, 16 environment, 9,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] food/medical, 10-12,25-27,33-40 geology, 28,41-47 material, [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] and radionulide, 4,[22][23][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] respectively. In addition to these conventional elemental analysis topics, a study on the gas phase catalytic reaction has also been reported by using the reaction cell of ICP-QMS/QMS as the in-situ reaction field.…”

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Trends and Advances in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Quadruple Mass Spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) With Reaction Cell

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2021

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Trends and advances in the development and application of inductively coupled plasma tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) with a reaction cell is reviewed mainly based on publications from January 2018 to July 2021. ICP-QMS/QMS has been applied in various research fields covering the sciences of biology, energy, environmental, food/medical, geology, materials, and radionuclide. The objectives of analysis cover the determination of elemental concentration, ion-gas reaction, isotope analysis, single particle analysis, and chemical speciation analysis. Measurement of most elements in the periodic table are reported except for H, N, O, F, rare gas, and some of the radionuclides. In addition to the default reaction/collision gases (i.e., He, H2, O2, and NH3), N2O, CO2, CH4, CH3F, C2H4, and C2H6 have been used as reaction gases to improve the capability of separating spectral interferences or to study the ion-molecule reactions. Typical applications of ICP-QMS/QMS analysis in the major research fields are also discussed.

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Trends and Advances in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Quadruple Mass Spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) With Reaction Cell

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2021

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“…All measurements were conducted using a tandem mass spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma (ICP-MS/MS) using an optimized method for the measurement of TCEs in sediment digests (Klein et al 2021 ). The ICP-MS/MS system consists of an Agilent 8800 ICP-MS/MS (Agilent 8800, Agilent Technologies, Tokyo, Japan) coupled to an ESI SC-4 DX FAST autosampler (Elemental Scientific, Omaha, Nebraska, USA) equipped with an ultra-low penetration air (ULPA) filtration unit (Elemental Scientific, Omaha, Nebraska, USA).…”

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“…Moreover, transboundary committees urge actions for the protection of the good environmental status, e.g., stated in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations or the Oslo-Paris-Convention (OSPAR). However, besides the continuously monitored legacy pollutants (e.g., Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, Pb), new potential contaminants like the so-called technology-critical elements (TCEs) (including Ga, Ge, Nb, In, REEs and Ta) may play an important role in the near future (Filella and Rodriguez-Murillo 2017 ; Filella and Rodushkin 2018 ; Klein et al 2021 ; Nuss and Blengini 2018 ; Reese et al 2020 ).…”

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Occurrence and Temporal Variation of Technology-Critical Elements in North Sea Sediments—A Determination of Preliminary Reference Values

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Ebeling

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Arch Environ Contam Toxicol

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As interest in the investigation of possible sources and environmental sinks of technology-critical elements (TCEs) continues to grow, the demand for reliable background level information of these elements in environmental matrices increases. In this study, a time series of ten years of sediment samples from two different regions of the German North Sea were analyzed for their mass fractions of Ga, Ge, Nb, In, REEs, and Ta (grain size fraction < 20 µm). Possible regional differences were investigated in order to determine preliminary reference values for these regions. Throughout the investigated time period, only minor variations in the mass fractions were observed and both regions did not show significant differences. Calculated local enrichment factors ranging from 0.6 to 2.3 for all TCEs indicate no or little pollution in the investigated areas. Consequently, reference values were calculated using two different approaches (Median + 2 median absolute deviation (M2MAD) and Tukey inner fence (TIF)). Both approaches resulted in consistent threshold values for the respective regions ranging from 158 µg kg−1 for In to 114 mg kg−1 for Ce. As none of the threshold values exceed the observed natural variation of TCEs in marine and freshwater sediments, they may be considered baseline values of the German Bight for future studies. Graphical Abstract

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“…However, low formation of the CaO + product ion renders this approach unfavourable [ 11 ]. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), on the other hand, is a more reactive alternative to oxygen [ 12 , 13 ] and has been explored recently for a number of elements using ICP-MS/MS systems [ 14 – 16 ], highlighting a broad scope for use in routine multi-element analysis. While N 2 O shows high reactivity, it is notably much less corrosive than NH 3 and may serve as a suitable alternative.…”

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Low-level 40Ca determinations using nitrous oxide with reaction cell inductively coupled plasma–tandem mass spectrometry

2022

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In inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the most abundant Ca isotope (40Ca) suffers from isobaric interference with argon, hindering the potential for low detection limits of Ca. A powerful approach is to remove the interference by using a reaction gas in a reaction cell. Ammonia (NH3) has proven to be an effective reaction gas by process of a charge transfer reaction. However, NH3 is highly corrosive and toxic and cannot remove isobaric 40 K. Therefore, this work proposes the use of nitrous oxide (N2O) to mass shift the target analyte 40Ca to 40Ca16O+ as a non-corrosive and non-toxic alternative. Instrument performance testing demonstrated that N2O was capable of reaching equivalent detection limits (0.015 ng g−1) and background equivalence concentrations (0.041 ng g−1) to that of NH3 and limited by the blank only. Further investigation of matrix interferences with synthetic standards highlighted that the N2O approach supports the separation of potassium (K) and magnesium (Mg)–based interferences at tested concentrations of more than 600 times and almost 800 times higher than Ca respectively, whereas NH3 was found to only support the removal of Mg. This work highlights a clear advantage of N2O for low-level Ca determinations with high matrix loads, as well as compatibility with other instrumentation sensitive to corrosion that supports reaction cell technology. Graphical abstract

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Improved determination of technologically critical elements in sediment digests by ICP-MS/MS using N₂O as a reaction gas

Abstract: The investigation of technologically critical elements (TCEs) as emerging pollutants is a constantly growing field of environmental research and societal concern. Nevertheless, existing data for most TCEs are still unsatisfactory...

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Trends and Advances in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Quadruple Mass Spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) With Reaction Cell

Trends and Advances in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Quadruple Mass Spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) With Reaction Cell

Occurrence and Temporal Variation of Technology-Critical Elements in North Sea Sediments—A Determination of Preliminary Reference Values

Low-level 40Ca determinations using nitrous oxide with reaction cell inductively coupled plasma–tandem mass spectrometry

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Improved determination of technologically critical elements in sediment digests by ICP-MS/MS using N2O as a reaction gas

Abstract: The investigation of technologically critical elements (TCEs) as emerging pollutants is a constantly growing field of environmental research and societal concern. Nevertheless, existing data for most TCEs are still unsatisfactory...

Cited by 25 publications

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Trends and Advances in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Quadruple Mass Spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) With Reaction Cell

Trends and Advances in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Quadruple Mass Spectrometry (ICP-QMS/QMS) With Reaction Cell

Occurrence and Temporal Variation of Technology-Critical Elements in North Sea Sediments—A Determination of Preliminary Reference Values

Low-level 40Ca determinations using nitrous oxide with reaction cell inductively coupled plasma–tandem mass spectrometry

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Improved determination of technologically critical elements in sediment digests by ICP-MS/MS using N₂O as a reaction gas