LABTips: Handling 'Glitches' in the Environmental Matrix

 LABTips: Handling 'Glitches' in the Environmental Matrix

Sewage, salt water, soil, sediment – all are examples of some of the complex, high-matrix samples encountered in the environmental lab. When performing trace elemental analysis using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) or mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) on high-matrix samples, there are many things that could potentially go wrong, including physical, chemical and spectral interferences from components of the matrix itself.Fortunately, there are a number of different techniques you can use to minimize or correct for these matrix effects, enabling accurate, reliable results and ensuring your method meets regulatory standards. Join us on a journey into the environmental matrix to learn tips for overcoming analytical challenges and to improve your ICP-OES and ICP-MS experiments. 

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