Sentences with phrase «plasma mass spectrometer»

The team used a high - tech sorter — an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer — that can detect trace amounts of metals to precisely measure the amounts of lead, aluminum, magnesium, iron and other metals in samples scraped from the pipes.

NFI, for example, uses the specialist laser ablation / inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer technique, which is still too costly for most forensic science institutes.

Not exact matches

They took sludge samples gathered from around the country and measured the metal content using a mass spectrometer that can discern different elements as they are ionized in a superhot plasma.

Click here to visit our Physics Connect profile Hiden's quadrupole mass spectrometers provide vacuum, plasma and surface analysis in nanotechnology applications, including SIMS depth profiling of nanometre scale thin film structures, plasma characterisation for enhancement of device etch processes, and vacuum diagnostics / temperature programmed desorption analysers in UHV scanning tunnelling microscopes.

Strontium isotope ratios can be measured at the delta ppm level using a medium to high resolution magnetic sector mass spectrometer with multiple fixed collectors and either thermal ionization or inductively coupled plasma as an ion source.