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- Title
Quantitative Separation of Molybdenum and Rhenium from Geological Materials for Isotopic Determination by MC-ICP-MS.
- Authors
Pearce, Christopher R.; Cohen, Anthony S.; Parkinson, Ian J.
- Abstract
We have developed a new chemical procedure for the quantitative separation of molybdenum (Mo) and rhenium (Re) from a wide variety of geological samples. A single pass anion exchange separation provided complete recovery of pure Mo and Re in a form that was ideal for subsequent isotope and abundance determination by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (MC-ICP-MS). An enriched 100Mo-97Mo solution, mixed with the sample before digestion, enabled natural mass-dependant isotopic fractionation of Mo to be determined with an external reproducibility of < 0.12‰ (δ98Mo/95Mo, 2 s). Determination of the concentration of Mo and Re in the same sample was achieved by isotope dilution, with instrumental mass-fractionation of Re being corrected by the simultaneous measurement of the 191Ir/193Ir ratio. We have applied the new procedure to a variety of samples, including seawater, basalt and organic-rich mudrock. The procedure is ideally suited to palaeoredox studies requiring the precise determination of the Mo isotope composition and the Re/Mo ratio from the same sample.
- Subjects
SEPARATION (Technology); MOLYBDENUM; RHENIUM; ISOTOPES; INDUCTIVELY coupled plasma mass spectrometry
- Publication
Geostandards & Geoanalytical Research, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 2, p219
- ISSN
1639-4488
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1751-908X.2009.00012.x