Nano-Powdered Calcium Carbonate Reference Materials: Significant Progress for Microanalysis?

Klaus Peter Jochum; Dieter Garbe-Schönberg; Marina Veter; Brigitte Stoll; Ulrike Weis; Michael Weber; Federico Lugli; Anna Jentzen; Ralf Schiebel; Jasper A. Wassenburg; Dorrit E. Jacob; Gerald H. Haug

doi:10.1111/ggr.12292

Nano-Powdered Calcium Carbonate Reference Materials: Significant Progress for Microanalysis?

Klaus Peter Jochum^*, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Marina Veter, Brigitte Stoll, Ulrike Weis, Michael Weber, Federico Lugli, Anna Jentzen, Ralf Schiebel, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Dorrit E. Jacob, Gerald H. Haug

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Homogeneity, mass fractions of about forty trace elements and Sr isotope composition of Ca carbonate reference materials (RMs) between original and nano-powdered pellets are compared. Our results using nanosecond and femtosecond LA-(MC)-ICP-MS show that the nano-pellets of the RMs MACS-3NP, JCp-1NP and JCt-1NP are about a factor of 2–3 more homogeneous than the original samples MACS-3, JCp-1 and JCt-1, and are therefore much more suitable for microanalytical purposes. With the exception of Si, the mass fractions of the synthetic RM MACS-3 agree with its fine-grained analogue MACS-3NP. Very small, but significant, differences between original and nano-pellets are observed in the RMs JCp-1 and JCt-1 for some trace elements with very low contents, indicating the need for re-certification. Strontium mass fractions in the analysed RMs are high (1500–7000 mg kg⁻¹), and their isotope compositions determined by LA-MC-ICP-MS in the original and the nano-pellets agree within uncertainty limits.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	595-609
Number of pages	15
Journal	Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12292
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

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