Search for dissertations about: "Isotope ratio measurements"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words Isotope ratio measurements.
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1. Isotope Ratio and Trace Element Measurements Using Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectrometry : Method Development and Applications in Environmental Forensics
Abstract : Environmental Forensics is a scientific methodology developed for identifying sources, the timing of release, and transport pathways for potentially hazardous environmental contaminants. It combines a variety of analytical methods with principles derived from disciplines such as chemistry, geology, geochemistry, hydrogeology, and statistics, with the purpose to provide objective scientific and legal conclusions on the source and/or time of a contaminant release. READ MORE
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2. Intramolecular isotope analysis reveals plant ecophysiological signals covering multiple timescales
Abstract : Our societies' wellbeing relies on stable and healthy environments. However, our current lifestyles, growth-oriented economic policies and the population explosion are leading to potentially catastrophic degradation of ecosystems and progressive disruption of food chains. READ MORE
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3. Isotope analysis of trace and ultra-trace elements in environmental matrices
Abstract : High precision isotope ratio measurements have found increasing application in various branches of science, from classical isotope geochronology to complex multi-tracer experiments in environmental studies. Progress in analytical technologies in recent years has allowed higher quality data to be obtained through mass spectrometry. READ MORE
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4. Studies of artificial mass bias in isotopic measurements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Abstract : Mass spectrometry, and especially inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), suffers heavily from mass bias, or instrumental mass discrimination. The nett result of this effect is the preferential transmission, most often of heavier ions through the mass spectrometer. READ MORE
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5. Method development for isotope analysis of trace and ultra-trace elements in environmental matrices
Abstract : The increasing load of toxic elements entering the ecosystems, as a consequence of anthropogenic processes, has grown public awareness in the last decades, resulting in a great number of studies focusing on pollution sources, transport, distribution, interactions with living organisms and remediation. Physical/chemical processes that drive the uptake, assimilation, compartmentation and translocation of heavy metals in biota has received a great deal of attention recently, since elemental concentrations and isotopic composition in biological matrices can be used as probes of both natural and anthropogenic sources. READ MORE
