Materials Characterization and Synthesis

Metals, Environmental and Terrestrial Analytical Laboratory

Capabilities

METAL can assist with:

  • Sample preparation (microwave digestion, multi-acid digestion, ball milling, microbalance weighing, centrifuging)
  • Elemental and ionic quantitation
  • Greenhouse gas analysis
  • Carbon and nitrogen (concentration and isotope) analysis (solutions and solids)
  • CH4 and CO2 carbon isotope analysis
  • Concentration of trace metals, REE, some major elements in a wide variety of sample types and over a large dynamic range by ICP-OES or ICP-MS
  • High-precision radiogenic and mass-dependent isotope ratio analyses by MC-ICP-MS
  • Measurement of isotope ratios (C, N, O and H) by IRMS

Popular applications

  • Water and aqueous solution/suspension analysis
  • Soil and sediment analysis
  • Tissue (plant, animal, microbe) and organic matter analysis
  • Synthetic material and compound analysis
  • Atmospheric composition, nitrogen fixation
  • Surface area and porosity analysis
  • Isotope ratios in natural and synthetic materials

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