LA-ICP-MS Study of Impurity Ion Concentrations in Zircon

Authors

  • Araya Mungchamnankit Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand.
  • Supanee Limsuwan Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand.
  • Pongtip Winotai Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
  • Siwaporn Meejoo Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.

Keywords:

LA-ICP-MS, impurity ions, zircon

Abstract

Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is surfacesensitive analytical technique for the estimation of element concentrations as well as their spatial distribution in the analyzed sample. In this work, LA-ICP-MS technique was used for analyzing the impurity ion concentrations in zircon. Because the presence of the impurity ions in the zircon usually caused the color in crystal, the zircon samples in this study are divided into three major groups i.e. untreated zircon (brown color), heat treated zircon in oxygen atmosphere (yellow color) and heat treated
zircon in argon atmosphere (greenish blue color). For the first group, the most impurity ion concentrations are Fe (208.90 ppm) and Ti (91.24 ppm). For the second and third groups, there are Fe (965.88 ppm) and Mg (412.20 ppm), Fe (434.66 ppm) and Ti (109.26 ppm), respectively.

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Published

2007-12-31

How to Cite

Araya Mungchamnankit, Supanee Limsuwan, Pongtip Winotai, and Siwaporn Meejoo. 2007. “LA-ICP-MS Study of Impurity Ion Concentrations in Zircon”. Agriculture and Natural Resources 41 (5). Bangkok, Thailand:267-71. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/anres/article/view/244379.

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 5 (2007): January-December

Section

Research Article

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