Operation PlasmaQuant MS product family
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5.6 Warming up the PlasmaQuant MS
With the plasma lit:
1. Open the P
LASMA ALIGN tab of the INSTRUMENT window.
2. Select T
IME for the scan type in the lower-left corner of the window.
3. By clicking [B
ROWSE] in the bottom of the window select one worksheet of the
default worksheets for the setup.
4. Press [S
TART].
5. To aspirate solution directly from a bottle rather than an autosampler, select
M
ANUAL SAMPLE INTRODUCTION from the window that appears, or direct the
autosampler to the rack/tube which contains the tuning solution.
6. The PlasmaQuant MS will begin to scan. Aspirate the 1 µg/L (1 ppb) tuning
solution during instrument warm-up to provide a quick visual indication of
instrument performance.
The instrument will reach thermal stability within 15 minutes of operation after a
warm-up time scan is started.
The PlasmaQuant MS is now ready for hardware optimization (if required), or
to commence analysis (if a method is ready).
Fig. 26 Time scan displaying the signal during warm-up
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