Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

该合同提供了购买电感耦合等离子体质谱计（ICP-MS）系统所需资金的一半，该系统将安装在哈佛大学地球与行星科学系。哈佛大学承诺提供收购所需的剩余资金。ICP-MS系统将满足哈佛大学许多研究小组的分析需求，其中大部分（估计70%的机器时间）在地球与行星科学和人类学系。剩余的机器时间预计将用于满足应用科学系、化学系和生物系的研究人员的需求。ICP-MS是对多种元素和浓度进行快速和高灵敏度分析的首选技术。哈佛大学需要这种分析的研究项目涵盖了一系列主题，从矿石形成过程的研究，到海洋的化学演化，再到河水化学，人类学和考古学，以及冰芯。

This award provides one-half the funding necessary to acquire an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) system that will be installed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Harvard University is committed to providing the remaining funds needed for the acquisition. The ICP-MS system will satisfy the analytical needs of a number of research groups at Harvard, mostly (an estimated 70% of machine time) in the departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Anthropology. The remaining machine time is expected to be devoted to the needs of researchers in the Division of Applied Sciences, and the departments of Chemistry and Biology. ICP-MS is the technique of choice for obtaining both rapid and highly sensitive analysis of a wide range of elements and concentrations. Research projects at Harvard in need of such analyses cover a range of subjects from the study of ore forming processes, to the chemical evolution of the oceans, to river water chemistry, anthropology and archaeology, and ice cores.