The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry, Volume 5

Diane Beauchemin is Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University, Kingsland, Ontario, Canada. Her research efforts are focused on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS), aiming to understand the limitations of this technique to identify ways of alleviating them and to expand the range of application of ICPMS (including to speciation analysis and the determination of bio-accessibility). She is considered such an authority that she is regularly invited to write a critical fundamental review on ICPMS by Analytical Chemistry, the analytical journal with the highest impact factor. In addition to these reviews, she has authored over 90 scientific publications, including books and several book chapters. She co-edited Volume 5 of the Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry (Elsevier 2010). From 2003 to 2006, she was President of the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy.

"The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry, Volume 5: Elemental and isotope ratio mass spectrometry covers the subject almost entirely and serves as a reference work with links to specialist literature if more details are required. Therefore, this book can be recommended to all beginners, students, and experts working in this broad field."--Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

• Mass Spectrometry sample preparation, introduction and measurement; Plasma Ionization, Inductively Coupled Plasma , Other Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas; Electrospray Ionization for Inorganic Analysis, Measurement of metal ions; Secondary Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometry; Inorganic laser Desorption and Laser Ionization, Laser ionization cluster sources; Thermal ionization Mass Spectrometry; Accelerator mass spectometry and Instrumentation; Laboratory studies of atmospherically relevant species; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) and IRMS of light elements (C, H, O, N, S). Applications of techniques to measure the environment, geochemical, atmospheric, space, nuclear, medical and electronics.