ICP Lab

We measure tiny amounts of sample in tiny volumes of material, or you could say, very little in very little.

What we do

Our ICP Lab is equipped with 3 instruments that use plasmas as a source of photons or ions: ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectroscopy), ICP-MS (Mass Spectrometry) and LA-ICP-MS (Laser Ablation). We can measure a wide range of elements in solutions and solids with concentrations from ppt to % levels.

With the ICP-OES and ICP-MS we can directly measure water, seawater and brines, as well as digested rock powders and sediments. LA-ICP-MS is used for analyzing solid samples, including minerals in thin sections of rocks, grain mounts such as zircons for U-Pb dating, teeth of prehistoric animals, fish scales, or XRF fusion beads for bulk rock analysis.

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