Too Much Lines, Not Enough Time? CLIP Helps You

In ICP-OES, line-rich spectra are often observed and it is difficult to find for the analyte a line free of interference among all the matrix or concomitant elements lines. It is particularly the case for matrices such as steel matrices, tungsten matrices, wastes with complex and various matrices. Usually the analyst prepares known solutions, makes profiles for each wavelength, at different concentrations of the analyte and of the concomitant elements and select a line free of interference and with adequate sensitivity. This crucial step of the method development is long and tedious. It should be carried with great care because it influences the accuracy of the results.

Horiba Scientific simplifies this step with CLIP (Collection of Line Intensity Profiles) which assists the analyst in the development of methods for high resolution sequential ICP-OES: no more solutions to

prepare, no more profiles to acquire. The profile of each line is calculated according to the instrument configuration: focal length, slits combination, diffraction grating and order used. Only few minutes are only needed to select lines for every element.

Each user of an ULTIMA family instrument can take benefit of CLIP, save time and get enhanced quality of the results. This module is available from March 2009, for every instrument of the ULTIMA 2 family currently ordered or already installed.