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Bredigite was synthesized by using the Piston-Cylinder in 1.2 GPa and 1 473 K. With external heating device and diamond anvil cell, high temperature and high pressure Raman spectra of bredigite were collected at temperatures 298, 353, 463, 543, 663, 773 and 873 K and with pressure from 1 atm up to 14.36 GPa (room temperature). The SEM image showed that the sample consisted of one crystalline phase with grain size ranging from 10～20 μm. The EPMA data suggest a chemical formula of Ca7.03(2)Mg0.98(2)Si3.94(2)O16 which was identical to the theoretical component of bredigite. The Raman spectroscopic results indicate there were 29 vibration bands of bredigite at high temperature. Some bands were merging, weakening and disappearing increasingly with the temperature, which was obvious in the range of 800~1 200 cm-1. The vibration bands of 909, 927 and 950 cm-1 disappeared at 873, 773 and 873 K, respectively. The results primarily indicated that the structure of bredigite was stable under experimental condition. In addition, isobaric mode-Grüneisen parameters and isothermal mode-Grüneisen parameters were calculated, yielding 1.47(2) and 0.45(3) as their mean values, respectively. Anharmonic coefficients were estimated based on the high temperature and high pressure Raman experiments, showing that the contributions to anharmonic-effect induced with the Si—O vibration modes were smaller than other modes.

Pangxidong composite granitoid pluton located in the southwestern margin of Yunkai massif. The metamorphic grade of this pluton increases from outside to inside, that is, banded-augen granitic gneisses, gneissoid granites and granites distribute in order from edge to core. X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Plasma Mass Spectrometry are conducted to study the geochemical characteristics of the three types of rocks. The result shows that all the three types of rocks are peraluminous rocks and their contents of main elements and rare earth elements change gradually. From granitic gneisses to granites, the contents of Al₂O₃, CaO, MgO, TiO₂, total rare earth elements and light rare earth elements increase, but the contents of SiO₂ and heavy rare earth elements decrease. It is suggested that the phylogenetic relationship exists between granitic gneisses, gneissoid granites and granites during the multi-stage tectonic evolution process. Furthermore, the remelting of metamorphosed supracrustal rocks in Yunkai massif is probably an important cause of granitoid rocks forming. The evolutionary mechanism is probably that SiO₂ and heavy rare earth elements were melt out from the protolith and gradually enriched upward, but Al₂O₃, CaO, MgO, TiO₂ and light rare earth elements enriched downward.

The Feieling Pb-Zn deposit of skarn-type is located the in Southwest margin of Yunkai massif, China. This ore deposit can be divided into wall rock near ore, concealed rock mass, endoskarn, exoskarn and orebody. The Raman and FTIR spectrum are conducted to study the mineralogical characteristics of quartz and calcite from five types of rocks from Feieling skarn-type deposit. The analysis shows that the quartz included in the near ore wall rock, endoskarn and exoskarn, comparing with recrystallized quartz of concealed rock mass, has a tend to change into low symmetry quartz in varying degrees. The crystalinity and order degree of quartz from near ore wall rock to concealed rock mass and to endoskarn are becoming higher, but that of quartz from different exoskarn samples display no regular. The origin or the quartz microstructure changes may be related to the multi-stage evolution of skarn mineralization process. The quartz, included in near ore wall rock, endoskarn and exoskarn, become easier to recrystallize and adjust microstructure under the influence of the multi-stage hydrothermal and temperature effect. In anyone sample, the earlier crystalline calcite, showing subhedral-euhedral crystal, display higher crystalinity and order degree. On the contrary, the later crystalline calcite, showing xenomorphic crystal, display lower crystalinity and order degree. Calcite crystal of exoskarn rock contains some silica impurity, while endoskarn and orebody rock is pure. The purity of calcite crystal may relate to Multi-stage evolution of skarn mineralization process. At the early and late skarn stage, active silica-containing fluid is easier to join into calcite, which is under higher temperature environments. On the contrary, at the late quartz-surfide stage, the later crystalized calcite displays higher purity, which is under lower temperature environments. Therefore, spectral characteristics of quartz and calcite reflect multi-stage evolution of skarn mineralization process.

The Xionger Group was originated from the volcanic eruption and sedimentation in Precambrian, whose sedimentary strata at the top were named Majiahe Formation. In the Majiahe Formation, there were hydrothermal chert widely distributed, which were exhibited to be interlayers in the volcanic rocks. The polarized microscope, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman and electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD) were conducted to study the characteristics in micro area of the jasperite samples, which were from the sedimentary interlayers in the volcanic rocks of Majiahe Formation in Xionger Group. As shown in the microphotographs and EBSD images, the quartz in the chert had small grain size, low degree of crystallinity and close packed structure, which quite agreed with the characteristics of hydrothermal sedimentary chert. In the chert of Xionger Group, there were clear banded (or lamellar) structures which were contributed by the diversities of the grain size and mineral composition. The different bands (or lamellars) had alternative appearance repeatedly, and denoted the diversities and periodic changes in the substance supply during the precipitation. According to the results of the XRD analysis, the majority minerals of the chert was low temperature quartz, whose lattice parameters were a=b=0.4913 nm, c=0.5405 nm and Z=3. As denoted in the EBSD image and result of Raman analysis, several impurity minerals were formed in the chert in different stages, whose geneses and formation time were quite different. The clay minerals and pyrite were scattered in distribution, and should be contributed by the original sedimentation. On contrary, the felsic minerals and mafic silicate minerals were originated from the sedimentation of tuffaceous substance during the volcanic eruption. The minerals of volcanic genesis had relatively larger grain size, and they deposited together with the hydrothermal sediments to form the bands (or lamellars) of coarse minerals. However, the hydrothermal sedimentation contributed to the bands (or lamellars) with minerals of much smaller grain size, which therefore resulted in diversities from the other bands (or lamellars). According to this, the repeated bands (or lamellars) denoted the volcanic activities were cyclic during the formation of the chert. What's more, the carbonate vein came from the precipitation of subsequent hydrothermal fluids in the fracture of the chert, which contributed to the changes (e. g. rising in crystallinity degree of silica and formation of micro-structure of new silicate) near the interface between chert and the carbonate vein. Although there were many impurity minerals with complex genesis, the relatively lower content of silica in the chert of Xionger Group was due to the volcanic mineral mainly. Since there were impurity minerals of volcanic genesis in relatively large amount, the content of silica in the chert of Xionger Group was hence relatively low. In this study, the Raman analysis was witnessed to be an effective way in the researches on the chert, and could open out the type of mineral, micro-structure and degrees of crystallinity (or order). These characteristics were well kept in the micro-area, and played significant roles to reflect and understand the formation mechanism and subsequent evolution of the chert.

Siliceous rocks were extensively distributed in the marine volcanic sedimentary formation of Erlangping Group in the Early Paleozoic in eastern Qinling area. These siliceous rocks formed in the same age, but had differences in the degree of crystallization and order because of the late diagenetic evolution. In the present study, the major elements and order degree of the siliceous rocks were studied, which were from the Erlangping Group in Xixia area, Songxian area and Nanzhao area of eartern Qinling orogenic belt. As shown in the results, the siliceous rocks contained SiO2 with percentage between 84.75% and 94.12% and average of 89.09%. The SiO2/(K2O+Na2O) values were from 26.69 to 114.78 with 65.67 as its average, and the values of SiO2/Al2O3 were from 10.48 to 61.52 with average of 30.58. These above characteristics excellently agreed with the geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal siliceous rocks, which deposited in the continental margin environment. In the Raman analytical results, the quartz contributed to the characteristic Raman shifts at 394, 464, 465 and 467 cm(-1). In the results of Gaussian fitting the degrees of order increased with the order of siliceous rocks of Songxian area, Nanzhao area and Xixia area, which were witnessed by the descending in FWHM values of quartz in the siliceous rocks of Songxian area, Nanzhao area and Xixia area orderly. Disagreeing with the FWHM values of Gaussian fitting, the silica contents of the siliceous rocks had a rising trend of Songxian (87.36%), Nanzhao (89.57%), Xixia area (90.35%), which meant a descending in impurity elements with the order of Songxian area, Nanzhao area and Xixia areas. According to this, there was high agreement between lower crystallinity degree and higher purity of silica, and this denoted that the rising in order degree of silica would result in lower impurity in siliceous rocks. Although the crystallinity degrees could change with the influences of temperature, pressure and its natural property, the impurity elements decreased with the rising in crystallinity degrees of silica. Although there was excluding of impurity elements during the increase in degrees of crystallinity and order, the key factor for the diversities of major elements in siliceous rocks was not likely to be the excluding of impurity elements during the increase in the crystallinity degrees in silica In this study, the Raman analysis exhibited to be an effective way to understand the degree of order for the silica of the siliceous rocks, which would be a potential way to study the subsequent diagenetic evolution of siliceous rocks.

The results of Raman, SEM, CL and EDS analysis show that the quartz-type BIF (banded iron formation) in Tieshanmiao formation, from Wuyang area of south North China Craton mainly contains quartz, magnetite and a small quantity of calcite. In comparison, magnetites represent the highest automorphic degree, while calcites contribute to the lowest automorphic degree. In addition, the automorphic degree of the quartz lies between magnetite and calcite. In the results of Raman analysis, the crystallinity and order degree are quite diverse in the vertical direction of the calcite band-like, and this is different from the calcite vein precipitating from the upper hydrothermal fluid. There are obvious plastic flow happening to calcite particles. During the process of plastic flow, the calcites are finally filled in the space between quartz and magnetite. This is the reason why the cross sectional shape and distributional characteristics of calcite aggregate are controlled by the particles of quartz and magnetite, which is also evidenced by the calcite filled into the slight interspace between two particles of quartz. In the Raman analysis, there are apparent differences of microarea component in calcite band-like, and this denotes that it is produced by the plastic flow and concourse process. What's more, the calcite acts as the migration intermedium of tiny magnetite during their concourse and crystallization processes, which is witnessed by the concentrated particles of magnetite in small size in local parts of the calcites. With the help of calcite, the small magnetite particles join together to crystallize with bigger size or form aggregate of minerals.

The XRD, FTIR and Raman spectrum were employed to study the characters of quartz from three types of rock samples, which are mineralized rock sample, near ore body rock sample and far away from ore body rock sample in Heliao lead-zinc polymetallic ore district. The research shows that the quartz in the mineralized rock and far away from ore body rock is pure, while the quartz in near ore body rock contains a small amount of impurities. But such small amounts of impurities did not cause apparent change in the quartz lattice parameters. From far away from ore body rock-->near ore body rock-->mineralized rock, the crystallinity and order degree of quartz are higher and higher. And the quartz in the mineralized rock has a trend to change into low symmetry quartz. It's a unique to mineralized rock that the quartz's absorption peak at 1 050 cm(-1) was split into two strongest ones. It can be used as the signs of whether exists mineralization. The cause for the quartz microstructure changes may be related to the activities of late mineralized hydrothermal fluids. Late hydrothermal influence was very weak to the quartz far away from ore body rock. And through the impact of the multi-stage hydrothermal effect, the quartz in mineralized rock may be purified by recrystallization and structural adjustment. However the quartz in near ore body rock didn't have enough hydrothermal influence, so it's not pure. Genealogy research technology is a useful technique for in-depth exploration of study area mineralization process and metallogenic regularity.

Europium chloride, 2-thienylformyltrifluoroacetone and sodium silicate were used to synthesize new-style rare earth complex (Eu-TNS). By adding into dichloromethane solution containing Eu-TNS, the fluorescent intensities were enhanced gradually and regularly. High-resolution mass spectrometry was used to detect the formula of Eu-TNS, which belongs to multi-core rare-earth complex. Polarity of solution increasing by adding absolute ethanol will cause Eu-TNS to dissociate, which enhances the fluoresceot intensities of Eu-TNS solution. This rare earth complex Eu-TNS can be employed as fluorescence sensor to detect the content of ethanol in organic solvent.

In the present study, Cu(II)-imprinted polymer was prepared and used as an effective method for separation and enrichment of Cu (II) ion in samples. An on-line preconcentration and extraction flow-injection system using solid phase extraction (SPE) column packed with prepared ion imprinted polymer (IIP) was set up. The column was eluted with a mixture of ethanol and H2 SO4 after preconcentration. A sensitive and simple chemiluminescence (CL) method using flow-injection has been developed for the determination of copper. The method is based on the fact that traces of Cu(II) exert a catalytic action on the oxidation between morin by KMnO4 solution. After optimizing the different experimental parameters, a calibration graph was obtained over the concentration range of 0 to 10 microg x mL(-1) for Cu(II) and r = 0.996 8. The detection limit is 0.001 2 microg x mL(-1). The recoveries are between 95% and 105% and the standard relative deviations (RSD) are less than 3% at 4.0 microg x mL(-1) (n = 9) level was obtained. The new chemiluminescence determination for copper has been established. The method can be satisfactorily applied to the determination of copper in sample.

The spectral features of ground objects are not only the brief contents of mechanism of remote sensing, but also the important basis in remote sensing application. As one of main components of terrestrial ecosystems, urban forest plays a key role in maintaining urban ecosystem balance. In the present paper, the authors adopted FieldSpec 3 portable spectroscope made by American ASD Company, and investigated or examined some spots in the Kangjian park of Shanghai, China. The spectra of euonymus japonicus L. cv, hypericum monogynum, sabina chinensis, ophiopogon japonicus, viburnum awabuki, and buxus sinica were measured. According to the actual conditions, the authors analyzed the data noise characteristic of the spectrum and got rid of the noise with Savitzky Golay method. Meanwhile, differential spectrum technology was used to remove the environmental background influence. Then the authors analyzed their features and variation of these spectral curves from the vegetation canopy and leaf level respectively. The research on spectral reflectance characteristics for urban vegetations is very significant. And the result of this research can be used for the study of physical chemistry performances of urban vegetation, remote sensing retrieval, vegetation classification, vegetation survey and environmental monitoring in urban area.

Investigations of crystal habit, quality and defects analysis of natural diamond and HPHT synthetic diamonds from Fe-C(H) and Ni-C system by Raman and PL spectra indicate that most of the diamonds from Fe-C(H) system have an octahedral habit which is the main habit in natural diamond, while most of the diamonds from Ni-C system have a hexakisoctahedral habit. Because there are more photoluminescence centers in synthetic diamond from Ni-C system than that from Fe-C(H) system, and in synthetic diamond than in natural diamond, the quality of natural diamond is best though it forms in more polygenic environment, which suggested that during the process of diamond formation clearing "impurity" must occur. Therefore, the authors believe that not only the substance system variance but also time and space conditions for diamond formation should be considered when the authors try to probe into the relations of formation process between natural and HPHT synthetic diamonds.

Fluorescence and UV-Vis spectra of ofloxacin (OFL) in sulfuric acid were studied. In the present paper, a new protonation state of OFL was observed. In hydrochloric acid, OFL produced bright green fluorescence upon excitation by UV radiation. The maximal emission wavelength of OFL is about 505 nm. However, OFL produces violet fluorescence when dissolved in concentrated sulfuric acid. The maximal emission wavelength changes into 400 nm. Further analysis demonstrated that the above changes arise from the variation of protonation states of OFL molecule. In dilute sulfuric acid, OFL accepted one proton, resulting in a protonation state that is similar to the OFL molecule dissolved HCl solution. The corresponding fluorescence band occurs at 505 nm. In concentrated sulfuric acid solution, OFL might accept additional protons. As a result, the size of the conjugated system is reduced and the fluorescence band exhibits a blue shift. In sulfuric acid of moderate concentrations, two bands at 505 and 400 nm respectively were found in the fluorescence emission spectra, indicating that OFL in two different protonation states coexists in the solution. In addition, both excitation band in excitation spectra and absorption bands in UV-Vis spectra exhibit red-shifted with the decrease in the concentration of sulfuric acid. Based on the above result, OFL can be used as a spectral probe to reflect the variation of H+ in strong acid environment.

In the present paper, NMR spectroscopy, an effective tool to detect the variation in, molecular structure and changes in chemical composition of metabolites in tissues, was used to study the differences between malignant and normal tissues from rectum. 1H and 31P spectra of seven malignant rectum tissue samples and five normal control tissues were investigated by using a 300 M NMR spectrometers and compared with the results of the infrared spectra of normal and malignant rectum organ tissues. The results indicate that the 1H and 31P spectra of rectum cancer tissues are significantly different from those of the normal controls and most differences present in the form of variation in relative intensities of the characteristic peaks of various metabolites. Systematic differences in the NMR spectra between malignant tissues and normal controls are as follows: in the 1H NMR spectra, differences lie in fatty acids with the concentration of fatty acid decreasing significantly in malignant tissues. In the 31P NMR spectra, differences lie in phospholipid, with the chemical shift of phospholipid decreasing significantly in malignant tissues. This phenomenon may reflect the fact that the activity of protein synthesis is enhanced in cancerous tissues. The difference in the chemical shift of phospholipid between normal rectal tissue and malignant tissue may be considered as a detection criterion. Therefore, the above spectral variations in 31P NMR spectra may be utilized as a potential tool to diagnose rectum cancer.

In the present paper, NMR spectroscopy, an effective tool to detect the variation in molecular structure and changes in chemical composition of metabolites in tissues, was used to study the differences between malignant and normal tissues from rectum. 1H spectra of four malignant rectum tissue samples and two normal control tissues were investigated by using a 500M NMR high-resolution magic angle spinning magnetic resonance spectrometers (HR-MAS NMR). The results indicate that the 1H HR-MAS spectra of rectum cancer tissues are significantly different from those of the normal controls and most differences are presents in the form of variation in the relative intensities of the characteristic peak of various metabolites. In order to characterize the variation in the relative intensities in a quantitative manner, the intensity of the methyl peak of fatty acid at 0.88 was utilized as inner standard. Systematic differences between NMR spectra of malignant tissue and normal controls are as follows: (1) The concentration of amino acid increases significantly in malignant tissues, since the relative intensities of characteristic peaks of amino acid including valine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, glutamate, glutamine, and aspartate are stronger in the NMR spectra of the malignant tissues. This phenomenon may reflect the fact that the activity of protein synthesis is enhanced in cancerous tissues. (2) The intensities of the characteristic peaks of lactic acid in malignant tissues are higher than those from normal controls. This may be related to the nature of anaerobic metabolism activity in malignant tissues. (3) The level of choline and its derivatives, taurine and creatine, increases significantly in malignant tissues, suggesting that the metabolic activity of malignant tissues changes. (4) In the spectral region between 4.5 and 10, observable changes occur on the peaks for unsaturated fatty acid and nuclear acids. Therefore, the above spectral variations in high resolution magic angle spinning NMR spectroscopy may be utilized as a potential tool to diagnose rectum cancer.

Based on more than 100 references, the present paper reviews the progress in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, an effective method to study the variation in chemical composition and molecular structure in biological samples for early diagnosis of cancer at molecular level. In the past several decades, numerous works have demonstrated that NMR spectroscopy may be developed into a sensitive diagnosis method to detect cancer in early stage. Because of the rapid development of NMR spectroscopic techniques, it becomes possible to record NMR spectra of biological samples in both in-vitro and in-vivo manner. Systematic spectral differences between biological samples from cancer patients and normal controls can be observed from both liquid-state and solid-state 1H, 31P NMR spectra and used to reflect the changes in metabolic behavior of malignant tissues. This paper has summarized NMR spectroscopic investigation on biological fluid, cultured cancerous cells, resected tissues, as well as in-vivo malignant tissues by using various advanced NMR techniques including recently developedhigh-resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS)and magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging (MRSI) methods. First, characteristic peaks, which are related to choline, phosphocholine (PC) and glycerophosphocholine, can be observed in both 1H and 31P NMR spectra of biological fluid samples from cancer patients. These results indicate that alternation in the metabolic pattern occurs with the progression of cancer. The research on cultured cells by using NMR spectroscopy showed that the signal of various phospholipids and their metabolites such as PME increased significantly in cultured cancer cells. For resected tissues, two methods can be utilized. The first one is to investigate the tissues directly by using HR-MAS spectroscopy. The second method is to extract various metabolites with various solvents such as CHCl3/methonal mixtures, HClO4 solutions, etc. and then analysis of the extracted solutions is performed using conventional liquid NMR spectroscopy. Significant differences on the content of various amino acids, metabolites of phospholipids, can be observed between malignant tissues and normal controls in NMR spectra. Recently, MRSI that can acquire 1H-NMR spectra of suspected tissues during the process of MRI diagnosis is available. The approach makes it possible for the surgeons to judge whether the suspected tissues are malignant or not before surgical operation. The above results demonstrate that NMR spectroscopy possesses bright perspective in diagnosing cancers and differentiating different types of cancers based on the metabolic behavior of cancerous tissues.

Cancer is one of the most serious diseases, a threat to human body's health and a causes of death. The early diagnosis of cancer and timely therapy is significant for improving the survival. Owing to the complexity and limit of conventional medical diagnosis, misdiagnosis of ten occurs in many cases. NMR spectroscopy is an effective technique for characterizing molecular structure and component changes. The component and structural information of nucleic acid, protein, lipid and glucide in the biologic tissues can also be distinguished from NMR data. In the present paper, a new method was developed for the diagnosis of tumor using the advanced physical chemistry (NMR) and biomedicine technique. Nine rectum tissue samples and their corresponding normal tissues of rectum were measured using NMR spectroscopy. Each tissue sample obtained from the operation was quickly separated into two parts averagely: one was dipped into 10% formalin solution and prepared for conventional pathological examination; the other was preserved in liquid nitrogen for further NMR detection. Before NMR detection, the corresponding sample was thawed at room temperature and was dipped into 0.5 mL D2O. Dioxane was used as external reference. The obtained NMR spectra were analyzed and compared by OMNIC5.0 and SPSS 11.0 Software. The differences of metabolite in the tissues samples were studied and a method for the diagnosis of cancer using NMR data was initially explored. The result indicates that the 1H NMR spectra of rectum cancer tissues are significantly different from those of their corresponding normal rectum tissues. This is shown by the differences in the integral area ratio at characteristic peak region. A0.9/A3.0, A1.3/A3.0, A2.0/ A3.0, A1.3/A0.9 and A4.1/A3.0 of the normal rectum tissues are higher than those of their corresponding cancer tissues, but A3.2/A3.0 is lower than that of the rectum cancer tissues. From the above result it is concluded that the concentration of fatty acid, inositol and lactate is lower in the rectum cancer tissues than in the normal tissues, while that of choline bases compounds is higher. The NMR judgments were also consistent with the pathological examination results. So the NMR spectra may be developed into a method of early diagnosing rectum cancer through these differences.

From the center to the rim of natural diamond there are differences in nitrogen and C-H bond contents, suggesting that diamond was formed under varying substance conditions. Both the nitrogen and C-H bond contents tend to decrease from the center to the rim as a whole, indicaing that nitrogen and hydrogen are expended little by little during the formation of diamond. But in the middle area of the sample both the nitrogen and C-H bond contents have a tendency to increase. This implies that nitrogen and hydrogen are added into the environment of diamond formation, meanwhile nitrogen is added earlier. So the procedure of diamond formation may be divided into three stages, namely nucleation and growth in the early stage, growth in the middle stage and in the late stage. In the early and late stages nitrogen and hydrogen are consumed in the environment of diamond formation. In the middle stage nitrogen and hydrogen must be replenished for the growth of diamond, and nitrogen should be replenished earlier than hydrogen. Hydrogen is useful to the nucleation and growth of diamond. During the formation of diamond the compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen do not exist. So we must avoid the formation of compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen for the nucleation and growth of diamond if we plan to introduce hydrogen to the synthesis of diamond at high temperature and high pressure (HPHT). Implanted hydrogen in graphite for the HPHT synthesis of diamond is a good choice.

The present paper describes the determination of trace Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B in Ti/TiC composite material using carbon powder, calcium carbonate, cupric oxide and beryllium oxide-as buffer by atomic emission spectrometry (ASE). Be 298.61 nm was selected as internal standard line. Sample separation and chemistry treatment were not requirel. The sample was directly loaded into ordinary electrode. The method is simple, rapid and accurate. The requirement of determination, and factors of influence were studied. A new method has developed for the determination of Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B. The analysis lines of Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B are 300.36, 248.33, 315.82, 260.57 and 249.68 nm respectively. The internal standard line of Be is 298.61 nm. The linear ranges of the determination of Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B are 0.003%-0.30%, 0.001%-0.20%, 0.003%-0.30%, 0.001%-0.20%, 0.001%-0.20% respectively. The detection limits of Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B are 0.003%; 0.001%, 0.003%, 0.001% and 0.001% respectively. The ranges of the recovery of Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B are 95.80%-104.8%, and the standard relative deviations (RSD) are less than 5.0% (n = 9). The method has been applied to the determination of Ni, Fe, Mo, Mn and B with satisfactory results.

The present paper shows that the trace amount of gold, platinum and palladium in hydrochloric acid solution can be concentrated by hyperbranched polymer. The new reagent has a rapid adsorption rate and big concentrating capacity. The determination of trace Au, Pt and Pd in sample using carbon powder and strontium carbonate as buffer was carried out by atomic emission spectrometry(AES). Zirconium was selected as internal standard line. The sample was directly loaded into ordinary electrode. The method is simple, rapid and accurate. The condition of determination, and factors of influence were studied. The analysis line of Au, Pt and Pd is 312.3, 306.5 and 311.4 nm respectively. The internal standard line of Zr is 310.7 nm. The linear range of the determination of Au, Pt and Pd is 0-0. 20%, 0-0. 40% and 0-0. 20% respectively. The detection limit of Au, Pt and Pd is 0.010%, 0.0030% and 0.0030% respectively. The method has been applied to the determination of Au, Pt and Pd with satisfactory results.

This paper describes the determination of trace La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Yb and Lu in the sample, using carbon powder, potassium sulfate, barium sulfate, strontium sulfate, and scandium chloride as buffer, by atomic emission spectrometry (AES). Scandium was selected as internal standard line. Sample separation and chemical treatment were not required. The sample was directly loaded into ordinary electrode. The method is simple, rapid and accurate. The determination requirement and influence factors were studied. A new method was developed for the determination of ten rare earth elements, for which the detection limit is smaller than 0.030%, and the range of the recovery is 94%-105%. The results of these elements in standard sample are in agreement with certified values, and the RSD is smaller than 5% (n = 9). The method has been applied to the determination of ten rare earth elements with satisfactory results.

This paper describes the determination of trace Zr and Hf in the sample using carbon powder and titanium oxide as the buffer by Atomic Emission Spectrometry (AES). Titanium was selected for the internal standard line. Sample separation and chemical treatment were not required. The sample was directly loaded into an ordinary electrode. The method is simple, rapid and accurate. The conditions for the determination, and the factors of influence have been studied. A new method has been developed for the determination of zirconium and hafnium. The analytical lines of Zr and Hf were 327.3 and 286.6 nm respectively. The internal standard line of Ti was 308.8 nm. The linear range of the determination of Zr and Hf was 0-0.50% and 0-0.25% respectively. The detection limit of Zr and Hf was 0.0010% and 0.010% respectively. The range of the recovery of zirconium and hafnium was 96.67%-105.0%. The results for these elements in standard sample are in agreement with certified values with a precision of 3.61% RSD for Zr (n = 9), and 4.82% RSD for Hf (n = 9). The method has been applied to the determination of Zr and Hf with satisfactory results.

This paper describes the determination of trace Nb and Ta in sample using carbon powder and hafnium oxide as buffer by atomic emission spectrometry (AES). Hafnium has been selected as internal standard, since it has scinilar evaporation curve as those of Nb and Ta. Samples can be analyzed without chemical pretreatment. The sample was directly loaded onto the ordinary electrode. The method is simple, rapid and accurate. The range of determination for Nb and Ta are 0%-0.25% and 0%-0.125% respectively, and the detection limits are found to be 0.003% and 0.001%, respectively. Satisfactory results are obtained.