The NICER Lab at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory runs the following facilities:
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Nu Plasma3 MC-ICP-MS
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Nu Sapphire MC-ICP-MS
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MARS 6 Microwave digestion system
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Nu TIMS instrument
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Clean Lab
Sapphire (Collision Cell) MC-ICP-MS
Low energy path with hexapole collision cell
Nu Plasma3 MC-ICP-MS
If you are interested in obtaining data from any of the routinely analyzed isotope systems in the NICER Lab or if you want to discuss potential projects please e-mail us:
- K, W isotopes (Heng Cheng; Email: [email protected])
- Sb, Cr isotopes (Matthew Jerram; Email: [email protected])
- U, Zn, Cu (Anirban Basu, Arijeet Mitra Email: [email protected], [email protected])
Mars 6 Microwave digestion system
We have a Mars 6 microwave digestion apparatus for the acid digestion of rocks, plants, soils, and biological materials.
If you have questions or like to process your samples please contact Matthew Jerram (Email: m[email protected])
Clean Labs
Our state of the art metal free clean labs allows the preparation of samples in the best possible environment.
Our lab contains 6 Laminar Air Flow hoods and 2 Fume hoods, split over two rooms to avoid cross contamination. We also have 4 and 5 figure balances for sample preparation.