Scott Willie

TL;DR: In this article, the application of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to the determination of eight trace metals in a coastal seawater reference material is described.

TL;DR: In this article, conditions for multielement sequestration of Pd and other platinum group metals (PGM) were established for multi-layer sequestration, where the catalytic reactivity of PGM's promotes low temperature deposition of the hydrides by dissociative chemisorption.

TL;DR: A commercial laboratory microwave-acid digestion system employing two types of closed vessel, (A) completely closed and (B) pressure-relief type, was evaluated for use in sample decomposition prior to the determination of trace elements in marine biological tissue and sediment samples.

TL;DR: In this paper, a certified reference material (FEBS-1) based on a fish otolith matrix was described, which was obtained from 4.5 kg of dried saggital otolith harvested from the red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus), ball milled and sieved to <200 mesh, homogenized, irradiated, and bottled into 1 g aliquots and certified for major, minor and trace element composition using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), isotope dilution-ICP, neutron