A-24
Agilent 7500 ICP-MS ChemStation Operator’s Manual
Appendix
where
Mi: Mass number of internal standards
n:
Number of internal standards (two in the case of “Point to Point”)
Ri: Modification rate of the internal-standard CPS between the
standard data and sample data
Ma:Mass number of the element to be quantitatively analyzed
Ra: Virtual-internal-standard correction coefficient for
correcting the CPS of the element to be quantitatively
analyzed
Quadratic (Y = aX
2
+ bX + c; All internal standards are used.)
where
Mi: Mass number of internal standards
n: Number of internal standards
Ri: Modification rate of the internal-standard CPS between the
standard data and sample data
Ma:Mass number of the element to be quantitatively analyzed
Ra: Virtual-internal-standard correction coefficient for correcting
the CPS of the element to be quantitatively analyzed
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