Developing Your Troubleshooting Skills: Part 2, Making the Most of Your ICP-OES

Join PerkinElmer for a multi-part series on getting the most and best from your ICP analysis. In this webinar, learn about sample introduction choices for various sample types, and discuss troubleshooting for ICP-OES.

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0:00 Introduction
2:34 Sample Analysis by ICP-OES: What Happens?
9:03 Nebulizer Maintenance
11:21 Sample Spray Chambers
13:13 Sample Introduction Maintenance
15:12 Physical Issues: Plasma Won't Light or Stay Lit
19:28 Check Injector Support O-rings
21:12 On-line Mixing Tees for Internal Standard
24:34 QC Failures - Where to start?
26:21 Sample Uptake, Read Delay, and Washout Times...
30:07 Sample Washout
33:51 Rinsing Limit Exceptions
34:41 Other Washout Recommendations
42:02 Syngistix 5.0 Adds Calibration Relative Standard Error (%RSE)
49:40 Processes in the ICP: A Review
51:21 Matrix Interferences in ICP-OES
53:06 Radial Mode Viewing Height
54:19 ICP-OES Calibration Example - Matrix Effects