Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 360-364.doi: 10.1007/s40242-017-6399-0

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Direct Quantitative Determination of Rare Earth Elements in REE-rich Mineral Powders by LA-ICP-MS

KE Yuqiu, GUO Wei, JIN Lanlan, QIAO Lei, YANG Huan, HU Shenghong   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
  • Received:2016-09-29 Revised:2017-02-14 Online:2017-06-01 Published:2017-03-13
  • Contact: 10.1007/s40242-017-6399-0 E-mail:shhu@cug.edu.cn
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    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41603025), the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Projects of China(No.2015311007) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2016M602386).

Abstract:

For direct quantitative determination of rare earth elements(REE) in REE-rich minerals, a most acceptable reference material NIST 610 might be an alternative external calibration standard due to the lack of matrix-matched reference materials. Here, we aimed to develop an analytical method for direct quantitative determination of REE concentrations in REE-rich minerals via laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(LA-ICP-MS). The results show that the REE concentrations measured via LA-ICP-MS using NIST 610 as an external standard are in good agreement with reference values with relative percentage difference(Dr) mainly less than 15%. Overall, these results demonstrate that our proposed analytical method is robust and accurate for direct quantitative determination of REE concentrations in REE-rich minerals.

Key words: Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(LA-ICP-MS), Rare earth element(REE), REE-rich mineral, NIST 610