Acquisition of a High Resolution ICP Mass Spectrometer

小行星9526980 该合同提供了部分资金（总成本的37%），用于购买将在密歇根大学地质科学系安装和运行的电感耦合等离子体质谱仪（ICP-MS）系统。密歇根大学承诺为购买和安装设备的剩余费用提供资金。 ICP-MS系统将满足密歇根大学对微量流体和矿物相元素分析的需求。密歇根大学的许多地质科学研究和教学项目需要对非常小的样品或十亿分之几或更低浓度的元素进行全面分析。样品包括天然沃茨、矿物等固体、生物组织、沉积物和土壤。需要这种分析能力的研究项目范围很广，而且各不相同，包括区域地下水系统的环境地球化学、碳酸盐微量元素含量、古海洋学和大洋中脊地球化学研究。该分析设施将向该大学的所有研究人员开放，并将被化学和生物学系、药学院、自然资源学院、公共卫生学院和五大湖研究中心等部门的工作人员广泛使用。 ***

9526980 Walter This award provides partial funding (37% of total cost) for the acquisition of an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) system to be installed and operated in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan is committed to provide funding for the remaining cost of acquiring and installing the equipment. The ICP-MS system will fill a need at the University of Michigan for elemental analysis in fluid and mineral phases at trace levels. Many of the research and teaching programs in the geological sciences at Michigan require complete analyses of very small samples or of elements present in very low concentrations of parts per billion or less. Samples include natural waters, solids such as minerals, biological tissues, sediments and soils. The spectrum of research projects needing such analytical capabilities is large and varied, including research in environmental geochemistry of regional groundwater systems, trace element contents of carbonates, paleoceanography, and mid-ocean ridge geochemistry. The analytical facility will be open to all researcher at the University, and will be used extensively by workers in the departments of chemistry and biology, the College of Pharmacy, School of Natural Resources, School of Public Health, and the Center for Great Lakes Research, among others. ***