Determination of impurity elements in MnZn ferrites by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Abstract

An inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) method was developed for the determination of Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Ga, As, Mo, Ag, Cd and Pb in MnZn ferrites. The sample was digested by HNO3+HCl with microwave digestion followed by dilution with ultrapure water, then the above 16 impurity elements in the solution were analyzed directly by ICP-MS. The impurity elements were introduced by the helium gas or hydrogen gas into the octopole reaction system (ORS) to eliminate the polyatomic interferences caused by the high salty matrixes. The matrix effect was minimized through matrix matching, and Be, Y and Rh were used as internal standard elements. The working parameters of the instrument were optimized. The results show that the method has good precision and high accuracy. The detection limits for the investigated elements are in the range of 0.9–37.5 ng/L, the relative standard deviation of each element is within 1.1%–4.8%, and the recovery of each element is 90%–108%.