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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 505-508Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2ja10147e
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- Australian Research Council
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Ratios of element count rates used for quantification of LA-ICP-MS analysis of fluid inclusions inside minerals change between shallow inclusions, ablated at crater depth to diameter aspect ratios <3 and deep inclusions, with aspect ratios >4, by up to a factor of 2.5. The Cl/Na and the Pb/Na ratios were found to be affected the most. Ablating a scapolite sample with homogeneous Na, Pb and Cl concentrations showed a similar pattern but of smaller magnitude. Such strong fractionation behaviour of chlorine has not been reported to date for LA-ICP-MS analysis. This aspect ratio dependent elemental fractionation is likely due to condensation-deposition and remobilisation effects within the laser ablation crater and may account for some of the scatter obtained when analysing a homogeneous assemblage of fluid inclusions located at variable depths below the surface.
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