TY - JOUR A1 - Coplen, T. B. A1 - Holden, N. E. A1 - Ding, T. A1 - Meijer, H. A. J. A1 - Vogl, Jochen A1 - Zhu, X. T1 - The Table of Standard Atomic Weights—An exercise in consensus JF - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry N2 - The present Table of Standard Atomic Weights (TSAW) of the elements is perhaps one of the most familiar data sets in science. Unlike most parameters in physical science whose values and uncertainties are evaluated using the “Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement” (GUM), the majority of standard atomic weight values and their uncertainties are consensus values, not GUM-evaluated values. The Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) regularly evaluates the literature for new isotopic-abundance measurements that can lead to revised standard atomic-weight values, Ar(E) for element E. The Commission strives to provide utmost clarity in products it disseminates, namely the TSAW and the Table of Isotopic Compositions of the Elements (TICE). In 2016, the Commission recognized that a guideline recommending the expression of uncertainty listed in parentheses following the standard atomic-weight value, for example, Ar(Se) = 78.971(8), did not agree with the GUM, which suggests that this parenthetic notation be reserved to express standard uncertainty, not the expanded uncertainty used in the TSAW and TICE. In 2017, to eliminate this noncompliance with the GUM, a new format was adopted in which the uncertainty value is specified by the “±” symbol, for example, Ar(Se) = 78.971 ± 0.008. To clarify the definition of uncertainty, a new footnote has been added to the TSAW. This footnote emphasizes that an atomic-weight uncertainty is a consensus (decisional) uncertainty. Not only has the Commission shielded users of the TSAW and TICE from unreliable measurements that appear in the literature as a result of unduly small uncertainties, but the aim of IUPAC has been fulfilled by which any scientist, taking any natural sample from commerce or research, can expect the sample atomic weight to lie within Ar(E) ± its uncertainty almost all of the time. KW - Atomic weight KW - Standard atomic weight KW - Uncertainty PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-551299 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8864 SN - 1097-0231 VL - 36 IS - 15 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Wiley AN - OPUS4-55129 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mieller, Björn A1 - Vogl, Jochen A1 - Noordmann, J. A1 - Kaltenbach, A. A1 - Rienitz, O. T1 - Preparation and characterization of primary magnesium mixtures for the ab initio calibration of absolute magnesium isotope ratio measurements JF - Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry N2 - We report an appropriate preparation of binary isotope calibration mixtures of the three stable isotopes of magnesium to be used in the ab initio calibration of multicollector mass spectrometers (ICPMS and TIMS). For each of the three possible combinations of binary mixtures ("24Mg" + "25Mg", "24Mg" + "26Mg", and "25Mg" + "26Mg"), three individual setups have been prepared under gravimetric control, each of them with an isotope ratio close to unity, and a total magnesium mass fraction close to 20 mg kg-1. The preparation was designed to occur via an intermediate dilution of a parent solution of a highly purified specimen of the isotopically enriched magnesium materials. For the application as calibration mixtures, a complete uncertainty budget was set up, and is presented and discussed in detail, including the aspects that went into the design of the dilution and mixing approach to minimize uncertainty. The principle parameters for the purpose of the later calibration of the mass spectrometers are the absolute masses of isotopically enriched magnesium materials in the primary calibration mixtures. For the first time relative expanded uncertainties U (k = 2) for these masses of ≤0.005% could be achieved for all mixtures. KW - Atomic weight KW - Magnesium KW - Isotope mixture KW - Purity PY - 2016 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-352564 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ja00284b SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 N1 - Geburtsname von Mieller, Björn: Brandt, B. - Birth name of Mieller, Björn: Brandt, B. N1 - Corrigendum: Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry 34 (2019) 2340 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 179 EP - 196 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-35256 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pritzkow, Wolfgang A1 - Wunderli, S. A1 - Vogl, Jochen A1 - Fortunato, G. T1 - The isotope abundances and the atomic weight of cadmium by a metrological approach JF - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry N2 - Gravimetric synthetic mixtures of seven enriched, purified cadmium isotope materials were used to determine the correction factors for mass fractionation (MC-TIMS) and mass discrimination (MC-ICP-MS). The isotope abundance ratios determined for various natural cadmium materials represents the isotope composition for natural cadmium materials. Correction of the isotope abundance ratios observed yielded isotope abundances of 106Cd 0.012450(8), 108Cd 0.008884(4), 110Cd 0.124846(16), 111Cd 0.127955(14), 112Cd 0.241110(38), 113Cd 0.122254(22), 114Cd 0.287439(60) and 116Cd 0.075183(32). The newly determined atomic weight of natural cadmium based on SI-traceable evaluation of the isotope abundance ratios is 112.41384(18). The cadmium material designated in the paper as Cd-2211 can be used as an isotope reference material with a δ(114Cd/110Cd)-value of 0‰. The results obtained show that the uncertainties for the isotope abundances and the atomic weight given as IUPAC values for cadmium are overestimated. KW - Atomic weight KW - Isotope abundance KW - Isotopic composition KW - Cadmium PY - 2007 SN - 0168-1176 SN - 0020-7381 SN - 1387-3806 SN - 1873-2798 VL - 261 IS - 1 SP - 74 EP - 85 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-14543 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wunderli, S. A1 - Fortunato, G. A1 - Vogl, Jochen A1 - Pritzkow, Wolfgang T1 - Meterology of determination for a new cadmium atomic weight and metrological application to cadmium in rice using MC-ICP-MS JF - Journal of Chinese mass spectrometry society / Zhipu-xuebao / Zhipu Xuehui KW - Atomic weight KW - Isotope KW - MC-ICP-MS KW - Cadmium KW - Determination of metrology of new cadmium atomic weight KW - Mass spectrometry KW - Review KW - Multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry PY - 2003 SN - 1004-2997 VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 467 EP - 470 CY - Beijing AN - OPUS4-31076 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -