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myStandards GmbH @ Goldschmidt 2021
This year, one of the most important international conferences in the field of geochemistry, the Goldschmidt, will not take place in France in the beautiful city of Lyon as planned, but again virtually. We have been invited to present the results of our joint collaboration with NIOZ on elemental boron and its isotopes in marine…
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myStandards now available at LabMix24 GmbH
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Microanalytical Analysis of Nano-Particulate Pressed Pellets made from Manganese Nodules
Manganese nodules have been of both scientific and industrial interest due to their high content of critical metals(i.e. Co, Ni, Zn, Cr, Cu, Pb). The dawn of new microanalytical techniques such as μXRF, LIBS and LA-ICP-MS has opened the possibilities of analysing these samples quantitatively and also visualising the elemental distribution in situ without tedious…
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Work on foraminifera reference material underway
Together with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) we are developing nano-particulate pressed powder pellets made purely out of foraminifera to be used as a reference material for in situ microanalytical techniques. The starting material is an aliquot, provided by NIOZ, of NFHS-1 (NIOZ Foraminifera House Standard). It stems from a calcareous ooze,…
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Analysis of ablation behaviour with a laser confocal microscope
Ablation-behaviour test of a magnetite nano-pellet using various crater sizes, number of pulses and fluences. Ablation-behaviour test of a magnetite nano-pellet using various crater sizes, number of pulses and fluences. It is apparent, that the surface is extraordinarily smooth and that the laser forms even craters as soon as fluence, number of pulses and spot-size…