測試項目：Nd同位素比值分析

測試對象：巖石、土壤、沉積物、海水、地下水

測試周期：45-90個工作日，可提供樣品測試加急服務。

送樣要求：

完成標準：前處理在超凈室100級超凈臺內進行，保證監測空白及樣品無污染，標樣和重復樣在允許誤差范圍內。
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方法描述：
11.1全巖Nd同位素比值分析
全巖Nd同位素前處理和測試由武漢上譜分析科技有限責任公司完成。
前處理流程：
化學分離：通過Sr分離流程獲得的REE溶液經過介質轉換后，直接上柱分離。柱子填充LN樹脂。用0.18M HCl淋洗去除基體元素。最終用0.3M HCl將Nd從柱上洗脫并收集。收集的Nd溶液蒸干后等待上機測試。
儀器測試流程：
Nd同位素分析采用德國Thermo Fisher Scientific 公司的MC-ICP-MS（Neptune Plus）。儀器配備9個法拉第杯接收器。¹⁴²Nd⁺、¹⁴³Nd⁺、¹⁴⁴Nd⁺、¹⁴⁵Nd⁺、¹⁴⁶Nd⁺、¹⁴⁷Sm⁺、¹⁴⁸Nd⁺、¹⁴⁹Sm⁺、¹⁵⁰Nd⁺同時被L4、L3、L2、L1、C、H1、H2、H3、H4等9個接收器接收。其中¹⁴⁷Sm⁺被用于監控并校正Sm對Nd同位素的同質異位素干擾。MC-ICP-MS采用了H+S錐組合和干泵以提高儀器靈敏度。根據樣品中的Nd含量，50 µl/min-100 µl/min兩種微量霧化器被選擇使用。Alfa公司的Nd單元素溶液被用于優化儀器操作參數。Nd標準物質（GSB 04-3258-2015，200 µg/L）的¹⁴²Nd信號一般高于2.5 V。數據采集由10個blocks組成，每個block含8個cycles，每個cycle為4.194秒。Nd同位素的儀器質量分餾采用內標指數法則校正（Russell et al. 1978）：

公式中i和j指示同位素質量數，R_m和R_T分別代表樣品的測試比值和參考值（推薦值），f指儀器質量分餾因子。¹⁴⁶Nd /¹⁴⁴Nd被用于計算Nd的質量分餾因子（0.7219，Lin et al. 2016）。由于前期有效的樣品分離富集處理，干擾元素Sm被分離干凈。殘留的¹⁴⁴Sm⁺干擾校正采用Lin et al.（2016）校正方法。實驗流程采用兩個Nd同位素標樣（GSB 04-3258-2015 和AlfaNd）之間插入7個樣品進行分析。全部分析數據采用專業同位素數據處理軟件“Iso-Compass”進行數據處理（Zhang et al., 2020）。GSB 04-3258-2015的¹⁴³Nd /¹⁴⁴Nd分析測試值為0.512440±6（2SD, n=31）與推薦值0.512438±6（2SD）（Li et al., 2017）在誤差范圍內一致，表明本儀器的穩定性和校正策略的可靠性滿足高精度的Nd同位素分析。
BCR-2（玄武巖）和RGM-2（流紋巖）（USGS）被選擇作為流程監控標樣。兩個樣品分別代表了基性巖和酸性巖，具有顯著的物理化學差異。BCR-2和RGM-2具有適中的Nd含量（28.7 µg/g和19 µg/g）。BCR-2的¹⁴³Nd /¹⁴⁴Nd分析測試值為0.512641±11（2SD, n=82），與推薦值0.512638±15（Wei et al. 2006）在誤差范圍內一致。RGM-2的¹⁴³Nd /¹⁴⁴Nd分析測試值為0.512804±12（2SD, n=80），與推薦值0.512803±10（Li et al. 2012）在誤差范圍內一致。數據表明，本實驗流程可以對樣品進行有效分離，分析準確度和精密度滿足高精度的Nd同位素分析。
本測試方法適用Nd含量>3 ppm的巖石樣品，保證實際地質樣品測試內精度（2SE）=0.000005-0.000025（0.01‰~0.05‰，2RSE），測試準確度優于0.000025（~0.05‰），視樣品Nd含量而定。Nd含量低于3 ppm的巖石樣品，測試內精度和準確度會受到影響，影響程度受樣品Nd含量控制。低Nd樣品分析請事先咨詢技術人員，確保樣品分析質量。
11.2 Scheme for Nd isotope ratio analyses using MC-ICP-MS
All chemical preparations were performed on class 100 work benches within a class 1000 over-pressured clean laboratory. Column chemistry: The REE solution from the Sr-column method was evaporated to incipient dryness, and taken up with 0.18 M HCl. The converted REE solution was loaded into an ion-exchange column packed with LN resin. After complete draining of the sample solution, columns were rinsed with 0.18 M HCl to remove undesirable matrix elements. Finally, the Nd fraction was eluted using 0.3 M HCl and gently evaporated to dryness prior to mass-spectrometric measurement.
Nd isotope analyses were performed on a Neptune Plus MC-ICP-MS (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Dreieich, Germany) at the Wuhan Sample Solution Analytical Technology Co., Ltd, Hubei, China. The Neptune Plus, a double focusing MC-ICP- MS, was equipped with seven fixed electron multiplier ICs, and nine Faraday cups fitted with 10¹¹ Ω resistors. The faraday collector configuration of the mass system was composed of an array from L4 to H4 to monitor ¹⁴²Nd⁺、¹⁴³Nd⁺、¹⁴⁴Nd⁺、¹⁴⁵Nd⁺、¹⁴⁶Nd⁺、¹⁴⁷Sm⁺、¹⁴⁸Nd⁺、¹⁴⁹Sm⁺、¹⁵⁰Nd⁺. The large dry interface pump (120 m³ hr^-1 pumping speed) and newly designed H skimmer cone and  the standard sample cone were used to increase the instrumental sensitivity. Nd single element solution from Alfa (Alfa Aesar, Karlsruhe, Germany) was used to optimize instrument operating parameters. An aliquot of the standard solution of 200 μg L⁻¹ GSB 04-3258-2015 was used regularly for uating the reproducibility and accuracy of the instrument. Typically, the signal intensities of ¹⁴²Nd⁺ in GSB 04-3258-2015 were > ~2.5 V. The Nd isotopic data were acquired in the static mode at low resolution. The routine data acquisition consisted of ten blocks of 10 cycles (4.194 s integration time per cycle). The total time of one measurement lasted about 7 min.
The exponential law, which initially was developed for TIMS measurement (Russell et al. 1978) ａnd remains the most widely accepted and utilized with MC-ICP-MS, was used to assess the instrumental mass discrimination in this study. Mass discrimination correction was carried out via internal normalization to a ¹⁴⁶Nd /¹⁴⁴Nd ratio of 0.7219 (Lin et al. 2016). The interference elements Sm have been completely separated by the exchange resin process. The remaining interferences of ¹⁴⁴Sm⁺ were corrected based on the mothed described by Lin et al. (2016). All data reduction for the MC-ICP-MS analysis of Nd isotope ratios was conducted using “Iso-Compass” software (Zhang et al. 2020). One GSB 04-3258-2015 standard was measured every seven samples analyzed. Analyses of the GSB 04-3258-2015 standard yielded ¹⁴³Nd /¹⁴⁴Nd ratio of 0.512440±6（2SD, n=31）, which is identical within error to their published values (0.512438±6（2SD）Li et al., 2017). In addition, the USGS reference materials BCR-2 (basalt) and RGM-2 (rhyolite) yielded results of 0.512641±11（2SD, n=82） ａnd 0.512804±12（2SD, n=80） for ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd, respectively, which is identical within error to their published values (Wei et al. 2006；Li et al. 2012).
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