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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART B-ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 79-80, Issue -, Pages 58-62Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2012.11.009
Keywords
Chemical speciation; High-resolution PIXE spectroscopy; Chlorine; Atmospheric aerosols
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- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Hungarian Research Fund OTKA
- EGT Norwegian Financial Mechanism Program [NNF78829]
- Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [P1-0112]
- European Community [227012]
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Chlorine is a main elemental component of atmospheric particulate matter (APM). The knowledge of the chemical form of chlorine is of primary importance for source apportionment and for estimation of health effects of APM. In this work the applicability of high-resolution wavelength dispersive proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) spectroscopy for chemical speciation of chlorine in fine fraction atmospheric aerosols is studied. A Johansson-type crystal spectrometer with energy resolution below the natural linewidth of Cl K lines was used to record the high-resolution K alpha and K beta proton induced spectra of several reference Cl compounds and two atmospheric aerosol samples, which were collected for conventional PIXE analysis. The K alpha spectra which refers to the oxidation state, showed very minor differences due to the high electronegativity of Cl. However, the K beta spectra exhibited pronounced chemical effects which were significant enough to perform chemical speciation. The major chlorine component in two fine fraction aerosol samples collected during a 2010 winter campaign in Budapest was clearly identified as NaCl by comparing the high-resolution Cl kappa beta spectra from the aerosol samples with the corresponding reference spectra. This work demonstrates the feasibility of high-resolution PIXE method for chemical speciation of Cl in aerosols. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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