A Handbook of Silicate Rock Analysis / by P.J. Potts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potts, P. J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineralogy.

Social sciences.

Humanities.

Humanities and Social Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Mineralogy.

Humanities and Social Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 622 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 1992.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The techniques available for the chemical analysis of silicate without an appreciation of what happens in between. rocks have undergone a revolution over the last 30 years. However, to use an analytical technique most effectively, No longer is the analytical balance the only instrument used it is essential to understand its analytical characteristics, in for quantitative measurement, as it was in the days of classi­ particular the excitation mechanism and the response of the cal gravimetric procedures. A wide variety of instrumental signal detection system. In this book, these characteristics techniques is now commonly used for silicate rock analysis, have been described within a framework of practical ana­ including some that incorporate excitation sources and detec­ lytical aplications, especially for the routine multi-element tion systems that have been developed only in the last few analysis of silicate rocks. All analytical techniques available years. These instrumental developments now permit a wide for routine silicate rock analysis are discussed, including range of trace elements to be determined on a routine basis. some more specialized procedures. Sufficient detail is In parallel with these exciting advances, users have tended included to provide practitioners of geochemistry with a firm to become more remote from the data production process. base from which to assess current performance, and in some This is, in part, an inevitable result of the widespread intro­ cases, future developments.

Contents:

1 Concepts in analytical chemistry

2 Classical and rapid methods of analysis

3 Optical spectrometry: principles and instrumentation

4 Atomic absorption spectrometry

5 Inductively coupled plasma—atomic emission spectrometry

6 Arc and spark source optical emission spectrometry

7 Ion-selective electrodes

8 X-ray fluorescence analysis: principles and practice of wavelength dispersive spectrometry

9 Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry

10 Electron probe microanalysis

11 Other microbeam and surface analysis techniques

12 Neutron activation analysis

13 Nuclear techniques for the determination of uranium and thorium and their decay products

14 Ion exchange preconcentration procedures

15 Gold and platinum group element analysis

16 Mass spectrometry: principles and instrumentation

17 Thermal ionization mass spectrometry

18 Gas source mass spectrometry

19 Spark source mass spectrometry

20 Inductively coupled plasma—mass spectrometry

References.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4615-3270-1