ICPMS电子书《A Beginner’s Guide to ICP-MS》
Amazingly, 18 years after the commercialization
of inductively coupled
plasma mass spectrometry
(ICP-MS), less than 4000 systems
have been installed worldwide. If
you compare this number with another
rapid multielement technique, inductively
coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry
(ICP-OES), first commercialized
in 1974, the difference is quite significant.
In 1992, 18 years after ICP-OES was
introduced, more than 9000 units had
been sold, and if you compare it with the
same time period that ICP-MS has been
available, the difference is even more dramatic.
From 1983 to the present day,
more than 17,000 ICP-OES systems have
been installed — more than four times
the number of ICP-MS systems. If the
comparison is made with all atomic spectroscopy
instrumentation (ICP-MS, ICPOES,
graphite furnace atomic absorption
[GFAA] and flame atomic absorption
[FAA]), the annual turnover for ICP-MS
is less than 7% of the total atomic spectroscopy
market — 400 units compared
to approximately 6000 atomic spectroscopy
systems. It’s even more surprising
when you consider that ICP-MS offers
so much more than the other
techniques, including two of its most attractive
features — the rapid multielement
capabilities of ICP-OES, combined
with the superb detection limits of GFAA.