ICP Optical Emmission
ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma) - Optical Emmission
Ultra Trace's Perkin-Elmer, Optima 3000 ICP Spectrometers offer state of the art technology. These instruments enable the simultaneous measurement of 6000 wavelengths of light emitted by the elements of the sample sprayed into the plasma. From this data the intensity of many elements, with necessary backgrounds, can be determined simultaneously.
The Optima is superior to conventional ICP instruments for the following reasons:
It is extremely stable because it has no moving parts (in contrast to conventional sequential machines).
True background points are measured on every sample (in contrast to conventional simultaneous machines.
Multiple emission lines can be monitored for specific elements to improve analytical reliability.
The ICP is generally more sensitive than Atomic Absorption for most elements, and much more so for some.