Estimation of Mass Discrimination Factor for a Wide Range of m/z by Argon Artificial Isotope Mixtures and NF3 Gas

Bulletin of the Korean chemical society

Dong Soo Lee¹  Christopher Lee¹  Jin Seog Kim¹  Jin Bok Lee¹  Deullae Min¹ 

关键词: Atomic weight;    Absolute isotope ratio;    Mass spectrometer;    Mass discrimination factor;    Artificial isotope mixture;   

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学科分类：化学（综合）

来源: Korean Chemical Society

【 摘 要 】

Absolute isotope ratio is a critical constituent in determination of atomic weight. To measure the absolute isotope ratio using a mass spectrometer, mass discrimination factor, fMD, is needed to convert measured isotope ratio to real isotope ratio of gas molecules. If the fMD could be predicted, absolute isotope ratio of a chemical species would be measureable in absence of its enriched isotope pure materials or isotope references. This work employed gravimetrically prepared isotope mixtures of argon (Ar) to obtain fMD at m/z of 40 in the magnetic sector type gas mass spectrometer (gas/MS). Besides, we compare the nitrogen isotope ratio of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) with that of nitrogen molecule (N2) decomposed from the same NF3 thermally in order to identify the difference of fMD values in extensive m/z region from 28 to 71. Our result shows that fMD at m/z 40 was −0.044 % ± 0.017 % (k = 1) from measurement of Ar artificial isotope mixtures. The fMD difference in the range of m/z from 28 to 71 is observed −0.12 % ± 0.14 % from NF3 and N2. From combination of this work and reported fMD values by another team, IRMM, if fMD of −0.16 % ± 0.14 % is applied to isotope ratio measurement from N2 to SF6, we can determine absolute isotope ratio within relative uncertainty of 0.2 %.

【 授权许可】

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