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Preparation of Food Samples Using Homogenization and Microwave-Assisted Wet Acid Digestion for Multi-Element Determination with ICP-MS
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2023
The presented protocol describes sample homogenization with a laboratory mixer, acid digestion of food samples using a mixture of 68 wt% HNO3 and 30 wt% H2O2 via microwave-assisted wet acid digestion, and multi-element determination performed with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.
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Sequential Games
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2025
Sequential games involve players making decisions one after another, with each player considering the prior decisions of other players before deciding their own strategy. The order of these decisions is crucial, as each decision influences subsequent ones, affecting the overall outcome. Decision trees are valuable tools in illustrating these games, helping visualize each possible decision and its consequences, allowing players to anticipate and plan strategies effectively. Consider two coffee...
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Sequential Game: Backward Induction
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2025
Backward induction is a technique for solving sequential games. It involves analyzing the game starting from the end and working backwards to the beginning. This method helps players determine their best strategies by anticipating how others will react at each stage of the game, ultimately leading to the Nash equilibrium. Imagine two beverage companies, FreshFizz and CoolBrew, deciding whether to enter a new market. FreshFizz moves first and must choose to enter or stay out. If FreshFizz...
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Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS): Interferences
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2024
Inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP–MS) is a highly selective and sensitive technique for accurate elemental analysis. Though the analysis of ICP–MS mass spectra is comparatively straightforward, it is affected by spectroscopic and non-spectroscopic interferences. Spectroscopic interferences arise when the plasma contains ionic species with an m/z value the same as the analyte ion. Spectroscopic interference can be categorized as isobaric, polyatomic ions, and refractory oxide ion...
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Microscale Vortex-assisted Electroporator for Sequential Molecular Delivery
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2014
A microfluidic vortex assisted electroporation platform was developed for sequential delivery of multiple molecules into identical cell populations with precise and independent dosage control. The system’s size based target cell purification step preceding electroporation aided to enhance molecular delivery efficiency and processed cell viability.
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The sequential format means the spectrometer measures element-specific emissions one after another rather than treating the entire elemental set as a single undifferentiated signal. This organized sequence supports analysis of multiple constituents within one sample while preserving the individual wavelength information needed to distinguish elements and determine their amounts.
Argon plasma supplies the extreme temperature needed to transform the introduced sample aerosol into atoms and excite those atoms to higher energy states. As the excited species return to lower energy states, they emit characteristic wavelengths. The plasma therefore creates the atomic emissions that make elemental identification and measurement possible.
Each element produces emission at wavelengths associated with its atomic energy changes. A spectrometer records these element-specific wavelengths as the excited atoms return to lower energy states, providing qualitative information about which elements are present. The measured emissions also provide quantitative information about the amount of each detected element.
Analysis begins with a chemical sample that is introduced as an aerosol, allowing it to enter the argon plasma. The plasma atomizes and excites the sample constituents, after which the spectrometer measures the resulting emissions sequentially. This pathway converts the sample’s elemental composition into wavelength-based analytical information.
The technique can reveal both composition and elemental amounts. Wavelength information indicates which chemical elements are present, while the measured emission data support quantitative assessment of those constituents. Together, these outcomes allow a sample to be examined for its broader elemental profile rather than for only one selected component.
Sequential ICP-AES is useful when researchers need elemental information from solutions, environmental samples, geological materials, or industrial products. In these settings, it can help determine composition, monitor contaminants, and assess material quality. Its ability to examine multiple elements makes it relevant to both investigative chemistry and practical evaluation of complex samples.