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Zhenjian Zhang1, Siyuan Ma1, Le Hang1
1Department of Chemistry, MOE Key Lab of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian361005, China.
Abstract:
The determination of fluorine, the lightest element in halogens, suffers from high ionization potential and spectral interference from water molecules in mass spectrometry. Herein, we introduced a liquid nitrogen cooling unit into the laser ablation and ionization source for the first time to construct a cryogenic laser ablation and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Cryo-LAI-TOFMS) system. With this system, the interference of water-related species at m/z 19 was effectively eliminated, and fluorine atomization and ionization efficiency could reach 6.3%. A direct quantitative analysis method was developed to determine fluorine contents in phosphate rock, copper ore, industrial byproduct gypsum, stream sediment, and soil. Considering the simplicity, high sensitivity, and low spectral interference of this technique, it can be extended to the determination of fluorine content as low as μg/g in complex solid samples.
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