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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
Volume 34, Issue 9, Pages 1773-1778Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9ja00204a
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- National Research Program for Key Issues in Air Pollution Control [DQGG0105]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41573013, U1407109]
- Natural Science Fund of Shaanxi Province [2015JM4143]
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Lithium is a very important metal for energy production. Lithium isotopes can be used to trace the source of fossil fuels that contribute to atmospheric haze and examine the occurrence and concentration of lithium in coal deposits. In this study, a microwave digestion method for coal decomposition using HNO3 + HF and H3BO3 acid systems was evaluated. The results demonstrated that coal was completely decomposed when these acids were used and the microwave program run in two steps. Three coal reference materials with different lithium concentrations (SARM18, SARM19 and SARM20) and four samples of Li-bearing coal from the Guanbanwusu Mine (China) were analyzed and the lithium isotopic composition was determined using MC-ICP-MS. Li isotope data were obtained with an intermediate precision better than +/- 0.30 parts per thousand. The delta Li-7 values determined for SARM18, SARM19 and SARM20 were 1.35 +/- 0.23 parts per thousand, 2.16 +/- 0.27 parts per thousand and 1.48 +/- 0.17 parts per thousand, respectively. The non-certified coal samples revealed a similar range in lithium isotopes (delta Li-7 = 6.02 parts per thousand to 6.77 parts per thousand) suggesting limited lithium isotope fractionation in coal locally, which could be useful for tracing atmospheric haze and contaminated waters in the environment. The comprehensive data and procedures in this study can be considered as a reference for conducting Li isotope determination in coal.
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