Joint determination of fluorine and chlorine in granitic rocks with ion-selective electrodes

This enables both fluorine and chlorine in granitic rocks to be determined with a single sample. A rapid technique, using fusions in culture tubes, and a slower technique, employing fusions in platinum crucibles are described. The culture-tube technique is suitable for geochemical exploration and employs an oxidizing flux so that sulphide-bearing rocks can be analysed. The platinum-crucible technique yields fluorine and chlorine results for the standard rocks G-2 and GSP-1 that are comparable in value and precision to those obtained by other analytical methods. It is faster, easier to manipulate and yields higher fluorine values than the existing joint spectrophotometric method.