ICP-MS

Agilent 7900 Benchtop Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer system - ICP-MS
 
Chemical Analysis

Agilent_ICP-MS 7900_Specifications                               Atomic_ASTS-2014_7900_ICPMS

EPA methods:

Method 6020 : Inductively Coupled - Mass Spectrometry;
Method 200.8: Determination of trace elements in waters and wastes by Inductively Coupled - Mass Spectrometry.


In addition to a traditional quantitative analysis, the ICP-MS allows to perform fast semi-quantitative analysis of unknown samples, when an external calibration is not required (it is accurate to +/-30% or better on completely unknown samples).

 

The ICP-MS serves the purpose of performing metals analysis on solution. It can be used for the determination of metals in a wide variety of sample types (drinking water, groundwater, other aqueous samples, industrial wastes, soils, sludge, sediments, and other solid samples) in different application areas such as Environmental, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Pharmaceutical, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Metallurgy, etc. However, there is no universal single technique, which will suit all of analytical needs. Your choice of technique/instrument should be based on the criteria summarized in the following table.