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Microwave digestion was applied as pretreatment of environmental samples for the determination of lead isotope ratios by ICP-MS. Microwave digestion decomposed the samples easily and rapidly without lead contamination. The lead isotope ratios could be measured directly by ICP-MS without tedious lead purification, because the influence of the matrix elements on measurements of lead isotope ratios is small enough to be ignored.
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Kawamura, H., Tagomori, H., Matsuoka, N. et al. Determination of stable lead isotope ratios in environmental samples: Combination of microwave digestion and ICP-MS. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 242, 717–720 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02347384
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