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Harris L Byers1, Lindsay J McHenry1, Timothy J Grundl1
1Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Lapham Hall, 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.
Abstract:
Excellent agreement was noted in the concentration of major and trace elements in five NIST soil reference materials (NIST SRM 2586, 2587, 2709a, 2710a and 2711a) between measurement results from wavelength dispersive-XRF and ICP-MS from two independent laboratories, and NIST certificate of analysis and literature data. We describe the variability in concentrations of up to forty-nine elements (plus loss on ignition) and provide values for up to twenty-one elements previously uncharacterised by NIST in these soil RMs. The additional characterisation provided in this investigation can be utilised to reduce the measurement bias of custom calibration routines and improve the quality of control checks developed using these NIST RMs.
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