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Ensuring the analysis accuracy by ICP-MS method using radioactive and highly-enriched stable isotope tracers and gamma-ray spectrometry

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To increase the accuracy of the analysis of silicon and rock samples by the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, it is proposed to use both highly-enriched stable and short-lived radioactive isotopes with high specific radioactivity obtained in nuclear reactor to control the yield of elements on decomposition. Autoclave decomposition method for silicon and rock samples is proposed. Non-purified silicon sample irradiated in a nuclear reactor was used for testing of element recoveries during sample decomposition. Analysis of granite and black shale reference rock samples has been done using the suggested approach.

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The work is supported by a joint grant of RFBR and the Agency for science and technology of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 18-53-41007 Uzb_t.

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  1. Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High-Purity Materials of Russian Academy of Sciences, Osypyan str. 6, 142432, Chernogolovka, Russia

    Vasilii K. Karandashev

  2. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin str. 19, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Vladimir P. Kolotov

  3. Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, U.Gulamov 1, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 100214

    Ilham I. Sadikov

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Karandashev, V.K., Kolotov, V.P. & Sadikov, I.I. Ensuring the analysis accuracy by ICP-MS method using radioactive and highly-enriched stable isotope tracers and gamma-ray spectrometry. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 325, 847–856 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07220-7

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