电感耦合等离子体串联质谱法同时测定土壤和水系沉积物中关键矿产稀散元素镓铟锗硒碲

Simultaneous Quantification of Critical Mineral Elements Gallium, Indium, Germanium, Selenium, and Tellurium in Soil and Stream Sediment by Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry

  • 摘要: 镓、铟、锗、硒、碲在地壳中的丰度极低且分布稀散,因在清洁能源转型中的关键应用而被列入关键矿产。传统分析方法受制于其质谱响应弱及严重干扰(尤其是元素硒),需分别采用电感耦合等离子体质谱(ICP-MS)和氢化物发生原子荧光光谱(HG-AFS)两种技术而无法实现一次溶样、同时测定。本文采用硝酸-氢氟酸-高氯酸常压敞口消解体系,在保证样品充分消解的同时有效避免了锗和硒的挥发损失;质谱测量中通过引入异丙醇(2%,V/V)作为增敏剂提升了硒(80Se)和碲(128Te)的质谱响应,增强倍数分别达2.75倍和2.32倍;采用氧气(O2)作为反应气的ICP-MS/MS质量转移模式(80Se+96SeO+),有效消除了80Se的严重质谱干扰,使硒的定量信噪比由1.30提升至58.20。由此建立了电感耦合等离子体串联质谱(ICP-MS/MS)同时测定土壤和水系沉积物中5种关键矿产元素镓铟锗硒碲的分析方法。方法检出限为0.002~0.060 μg/g,6件土壤和水系沉积物国家一级标准物质的ΔlgC值均在±0.05以内,且相对标准偏差(RSD)均<5%。本方法解决了锗和硒消解损失、硒和碲信号弱以及硒的质谱干扰难题,克服了传统单四极杆ICP-MS测定硒依赖王水水浴半溶的局限,实现了典型地质样品(土壤、水系沉积物)中5种关键矿产元素的一次溶样、高效、高灵敏同时测定。

     

    Abstract: Gallium, indium, germanium, selenium and tellurium are extremely scarce and widely dispersed in Earth’s crust, which have been included in the critical mineral list due to their extensive application in modern clean energy transitions. Traditional analytical methods are limited by their weak mass spectrometric response and severe interference (especially selenium), requiring the use of two techniques, ICP-MS and HG-AFS, which cannot achieve simultaneous determination of the same sample after one dissolution. An open vessel digestion employed with HF-HNO3-HClO4 to avoid the loss of Ge and Se while ensuring complete sample digestion. Isopropanol (2%, V/V) was selected as a sensitizer to improve the MS response of 80Se and 128Te by 2.75 and 2.32 folds. The severe MS interference of 80Se was eliminated by mass-shift mode using oxygen as the reaction gas in ICP-MS/MS and the signal-to-noise ratio of 80Se reaches 58.20. A simultaneous determination method of Ga, In, Ge, Se and Te by ICP-MS/MS was established in this study, the detection limits of this method were 0.002-0.060μg/g, and the ΔlgC of six certified reference materials were all within ±0.05, while RSD<5%. The established method of this study solves the disadvantages of easy volatilization loss of Ge and Se during digestion, the poor MS response of Se and Te, and the severe interference of Se in single-quadrupole ICP-MS which requires aqua regia semi-digestion. This method archives the simultaneous determination of five critical mineral elements Ga, In, Ge, Te and Se in typical geological samples (soil and stream sediment) in a single run.

     

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