PMID- 10570838
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000113
LR  - 20190822
IS  - 0048-9697 (Print)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 239
IP  - 1-3
DP  - 1999 Oct 1
TI  - Does bottle type and acid-washing influence trace element analyses by ICP-MS on 
      water samples? A test covering 62 elements and four bottle types: high density 
      polyethene (HDPE), polypropene (PP), fluorinated ethene propene copolymer (FEP) 
      and perfluoroalkoxy polymer (PFA).
PG  - 111-30
AB  - Groundwater samples from 15 boreholes in crystalline bedrock aquifers in South 
      Norway (Oslo area) have been collected in parallel in five different clear 
      plastic bottle types (high density polyethene [HDPE], polypropene [PP, two 
      manufacturers], fluorinated ethene propene copolymer [FEP] and perfluoroalkoxy 
      polymer [PFA]. In the cases of polyethene and polypropene, parallel samples have 
      been collected in factory-new (unwashed) bottles and acid-washed factory-new 
      bottles. Samples have been analysed by ICP-MS techniques for a wide range of 
      inorganic elements down to the ppt (ng/l) range. It was found that acid-washing 
      of factory-new flasks had no clear systematic beneficial effect on analytical 
      result. On the contrary, for the PP-bottles concentrations of Pb and Sn were 
      clearly elevated in the acid-washed bottles. Likewise, for the vast majority of 
      elements, bottle type was of no importance for analytical result. For six 
      elements (Al, Cr, Hf, Hg, Pb and Sn) some systematic differences for one or more 
      bottle types could be tentatively discerned, but in no case was the discrepancy 
      of major cause for concern. The most pronounced effect was for Cr, with clearly 
      elevated concentrations returned from the samples collected in HDPE bottles, 
      regardless of acid-washing or not. For the above six elements, FEP or PFA bottles 
      seemed to be marginally preferable to PP and HDPE. In general, cheap HDPE, 
      factory new, unwashed flasks are suitable for sampling waters for ICP-MS 
      ultra-trace analysis of the elements tested.
FAU - Reimann, C
AU  - Reimann C
AD  - Norges geologiske undersokelse, Trondheim, Norway. Clemens.Reimann@ng.no
FAU - Siewers, U
AU  - Siewers U
FAU - Skarphagen, H
AU  - Skarphagen H
FAU - Banks, D
AU  - Banks D
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Acids)
RN  - 0 (Polymers)
RN  - 0 (Trace Elements)
SB  - IM
MH  - Acids
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*instrumentation/methods/*standards
MH  - Equipment Contamination
MH  - Mass Spectrometry/*methods
MH  - Norway
MH  - Polymers/chemistry
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Specimen Handling/*instrumentation/methods
MH  - Trace Elements/*analysis
MH  - Water Supply/*analysis
EDAT- 1999/11/26 00:00
MHDA- 1999/11/26 00:01
CRDT- 1999/11/26 00:00
PHST- 1999/11/26 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/11/26 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/11/26 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(99)00302-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0048-9697(99)00302-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 1999 Oct 1;239(1-3):111-30. doi: 
      10.1016/s0048-9697(99)00302-2.