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Final report on key comparison CCQM-K13 of cadmium and lead amount content in sediment

I Papadakis, P D P Taylor and Y Aregbe

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KEY COMPARISON

This report describes a key comparison of cadmium and lead amount content in sediment, organized in 2000 by the Inorganic Analysis Working Group (IAWG) of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM) and piloted by the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM, Geel, Belgium). The majority of the fourteen participating national metrology institutes (NMIs) applied isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) using various mass spectrometry techniques. External standard calibration was used by two of the NMIs for the Cd measurement and by one of them for the Pb measurement. The results showed satisfactory agreement. The key comparison reference value was agreed as the median of the reported results, excluding those of two participants for the Cd measurement, and degree of equivalence statements are given.


 

Main text. To reach the main text of this paper, click on Final Report. Note that this text is that which appears in Appendix B of the BIPM key comparison database www.bipm.org/kcdb.

This Final Report has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication by the CCQM according to the provisions of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA).

PACS

91.50.Jc Turbidity currents, sedimentation

91.65.Dt Isotopic composition/chemistry

06.20.F- Units and standards

91.67.Pq Major and trace element geochemistry

91.65.Ti Sedimentary petrology

82.80.Ms Mass spectrometry (including SIMS, multiphoton ionization and resonance ionization mass spectrometry, MALDI)

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Environmental and Earth science

Chemical physics and physical chemistry

Dates

Issue 1A (Technical Supplement 2002)



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