This Technical Specification specifies the method for the determination of major, minor and trace elements in aqua regia and nitric acid digests and in eluates of construction products by Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). It refers to the following 67 elements: Aluminium (Al), antimony (Sb), arsenic (As), barium (Ba), beryllium (Be), bismuth (Bi), boron (B), cadmium (Cd), calcium (Ca), cerium (Ce), cesium (Cs), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), dysprosium (Dy), erbium (Er), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge), gold (Au), hafnium (Hf), holmium (Ho), indium (In), iridium (Ir), iron (Fe), lanthanum (La), lead (Pb), lithium (Li), lutetium (Lu), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), mercury (Hg), molybdenum (Mo), neodymium (Nd), nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), phosphorus (P), platinum (Pt), potassium (K), praseodymium (Pr), rubidium (Rb), rhenium (Re), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), samarium (Sm), scandium (Sc), selenium (Se), silicon (Si), silver (Ag), sodium (Na), strontium (Sr), sulphur (S), tellurium (Te), terbium (Tb), thallium (Tl), thorium (Th), thulium (Tm), tin (Sn), titanium (Ti), tungsten (W), uranium (U), vanadium (V), ytterbium (Yb), yttrium (Y), zinc (Zn), and zirconium (Zr). NOTE 1 Construction products include e.g. mineral-based products (S); bituminous products (B); metals (M); wood-based products (W); plastics and rubbers (P); sealants and adhesives (A); paints and coatings (C), see also CEN\/TR 16045 [1]. The working range depends on the matrix and the interferences encountered. NOTE 2 The limit of detection of most elements will be affected by their natural abundance, ionization behaviour, on abundance of isotope(s) free from isobaric interferences and by contamination (e.g. handling and airborne). Handling contaminations are in many cases more important than airborne ones. The limit of detection will be higher in cases where the determination is likely to be interfered (see Clause 4) or in case of memory effects (see e.g. EN ISO 17294-1:2006, 8.2). The method in this Technical Specification is applicable to construction products and validated for the product types listed in Annex B.<\/p>\n
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| 2<\/td>\n | National foreword <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 6<\/td>\n | European foreword <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 7<\/td>\n | Introduction <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 8<\/td>\n | 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 10<\/td>\n | 4 Symbols and abbreviations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 11<\/td>\n | 5 Principle 6 Interferences 6.1 General 6.2 Spectral interferences 6.2.1 Isobaric elemental interferences 6.2.2 Isobaric molecular and doubly charged ion interferences <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 12<\/td>\n | 6.3 Non spectral interferences 7 Reagents 7.1 General 7.5 Single element standard stock solutions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 13<\/td>\n | 7.6 Multi-element standard stock solutions 7.6.1 General 7.7 Multi-element calibration solutions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 14<\/td>\n | 7.8 Internal standard solution 7.9 Calibration blank 7.10 Method blank 7.11 Optimization solution 7.12 Interference check solution <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 15<\/td>\n | 8 Apparatus 8.1 General requirements 8.2 Mass spectrometer 8.3 Mass-flow controller 8.4 Nebulizer with variable speed peristaltic pump 8.5 Gas supply 8.6 Glassware <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 16<\/td>\n | 8.7 Storage bottles for the stock, standard, calibration and sample solutions 9 Procedure 9.1 Test sample 9.2 Test portion 9.3 Instrument set up <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 17<\/td>\n | 9.4 Calibration 9.4.1 Calibration function 9.4.2 Standard addition calibration 9.4.3 Determination of correction factors 9.4.4 Variable isotope ratio 9.5 Sample measurement <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 18<\/td>\n | 10 Calculation 10.1 Calculation for digests of construction products 10.2 Calculation for eluates of construction products 11 Expression of results 12 Performance characteristics 12.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 19<\/td>\n | 12.2 Blank 12.3 Calibration check 12.4 Internal standard response 12.5 Interference 12.6 Recovery 12.7 Precision <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 20<\/td>\n | 13 Test report <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 22<\/td>\n | Annex A (informative) Method detection limit (MDL) and precision data for soil, sludge and biowaste <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 28<\/td>\n | Annex B (informative) Validation results for construction products <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
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