Instrument location: Jacobs Hall 157

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Perkin Elmer NexION 2000B

The Perkin Elmer NexION 2000B inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) measures metals and several non-metals in solution at concentrations as low as one part-per-trillion. The triple quadrupole provides flexibility to function under standard, collision, or reaction cell modes. With this flexibility, additional sensitivity and removal of spectral interferences found in constituents difficult to analyze on a mass spectrometer are possible. Standard operating procedures for this instrument follow SW-846 Test Method 6020. This instrument is capable of analyzing water and liquid extracts from wastes, soils, sediments, fly ash, cements, and biological samples.

The NexION 2000B is currently configured to test for the following elements:

Aluminum (Al)
Antimony (Sb)
Arsenic (As)
Barium (Ba)
Beryllium (Be)
Boron (B)
Cadmium (Cd)
Calcium (Ca)
Cesium (Cs)
Chromium (Cr)
Cobalt (C0)
Copper (Cu)
Iron (Fe)
Lead (Pb)
Lithium (Li)
Magnesium (Mg)
Manganese (Mn)
Molybdenum (Mo)
Nickel (Ni)
Potassium (K)
Rhenium (Re)
Selenium (Se)
Silicon (Si)
Silver (Ag)
Sodium (Na)
Strontium (Sr)
Thallium (Tl)
Tin (Sn)
Titanium (Ti)
Uranium (U)
Vanadium (V)
Zinc (Zn)
Zirconium (Zr)

By special request:
Gold (Au)
Mercury (Hg)*
Platinum (Pt)
Rare Earth Elements

*Samples analyzed for mercury have additional sample preparation requirements, which adds an additional surcharge per sample.

Elements not included in this list can be added to the instrument once the user has purchased the appropriate reference standards. The ICP-MS is a staff-run instrument with pricing based on a per-sample charge. All sample submissions are handled via MDERFH’s iLab Core.