Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 16, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16234772
Keywords
Pb isotope; coal fly ash; coal ash; Pb-204-Pb-207 double spike; TIMS
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41490632, 41673061]
- Instrument Function Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [IGG201803]
- Research Start-up Project for Introduced Talent of Yunnan University [20190043]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The rapid expansion of coal-fired power plants around the world has produced a huge volume of toxic elements associated with combustion residues such as coal fly ash (CFA) and coal ash (CA), which pose great threats to the global environment. It is therefore crucial for environmental science to monitor the migration and emission pathway of toxic elements such as CFA and CA. Lead isotopes have proved to be powerful tracers capable of dealing with this issue. Unfortunately, up to now, few high precision lead isotope data of CFA and CA certified reference materials (CRMs) determined by using the double spike technique have been reported. Hence, to facilitate the application of lead isotopes in environmental science, it is indispensable and urgent to determine a suite of high precision Pb isotope ratios and Pb elemental contents for CFA and CA CRMs. Here, we measured lead isotope ratios from four CFA and CA CRMs using thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) combined with the Pb-204-Pb-207 double spike method. Lead isotope ratios values of CRMs (GBW11124, GBW08401, GBW11125d, and JCFA-1) covered wide variation ranges from 17.993 to 19.228 for Pb-206/Pb-204, from 15.513 to 15.675 for Pb-207/Pb-204, and from 38.184 to 39.067 for Pb-208/Pb-204. Lead isotope ratios of these CRMs, except for GBW11124, show good external reproducibility (2 RSD, n = 8), which is better than 0.05% for Pb-206/Pb-204 and Pb-207/Pb-204, 0.07% for Pb-208/Pb-204, 0.04% for Pb-206/Pb-207, and 0.05% for Pb-208/Pb-206. The Pb concentrations of these CRMs were determined using Pb-207 single spike method. The reproducibility (1 RSD, n = 4) of Pb elemental content was <0.60%. This indicates the distribution of Pb elements in these CRMs is homogeneous. With the exception of GBW11124, the suite of CRMs can be used for determining CFA and CA matrix composition for quality control of Pb isotope analyses.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available