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Isotope reference materials are essential to enable reliable and comparable isotope data. Besides the correction of mass fractionation or mass discrimination, isotope reference materials are indispensible for validation and quality control of analytical procedures. This report describes the production and certification of two isotope reference materials, ERM-AE123 and ERM-AE124, for boron isotope analysis. The isotopic composition of ERM-AE123 is the unaltered natural-like isotopic composition of the base material. The isotopic composition of ERM-AE124 has been adjusted by mixing two boron stock solutions enriched in 10B and 11B respectively under full gravimetric control. All stock solutions have been prepared fully under gravimetrical control. The corresponding boron isotopic composition has been analysed by TIMS. For both reference materials the isotopic composition obtained on the basis of the gravimetric data agrees very well with the isotopic composition obtained by TIMS. The certified isotope abundances for 10B are 0.19832 (21) for ERM-AE123 and 0.96006 (6) for ERM-AE124. Together with the formerly certified ERM-AE101, -AE102a, -AE103, -AE104a, -AE120, -AE121 and AE122, a unique set of nine certified reference materials (CRM) for boron isotope analysis is now available from BAM covering a range for the 10B isotope amount fraction from 0.2 to 0.96 and for the δ11B value from -20 ‰ to +40 ‰.
A modified Pb–matrix separation procedure using NH4HCO3 solution as eluent has been developed and validated for determination of Pb isotope amount ratios by thermal ionization mass spectrometry. The procedure is based on chromatographic separation using the Pb·Spec resin and an in-house-prepared NH4HCO3 solution serving as eluent. The advantages of this eluent are low Pb blanks (<40 pgmL-1) and the property that NH4HCO3 can be easily removed by use of a heating step (>60 °C). Pb recovery is >95 % for water samples. For archaeological silver samples, however, the Pb recovery is reduced to approximately 50 %, but causes no bias in the determination of Pb isotope amount ratios. The validated procedure was used to determine lead isotope amount ratios in Trojan silver artefacts with expanded uncertainties (k=2) <0.09 %.
Blei weist in der Natur die vier stabilen Isotope 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb und 208Pb auf, mit den entsprechenden Isotopenhäufigkeiten von 1,4%, 24,1 %, 22,1 % und 52,4 %686. Dabei sind 206Pb, 207Pb und 208Pb radiogene Isotope, welche als Endglieder der natürlichen Zerfallsreihen von 238U, 235U und 232Th entstanden sind. 204Pb ist ein sogenanntes primordiales Isotop, welches bereits vor Entstehung der Erde vorhanden war. Aufgrund dieser Prozesse weisen Gesteine, Mineralien und Erze eine charakteristische Bleiisotopenzusammensetzung auf, die von der Ausgangskonzentration an Blei, Thorium und Uran sowie von der seit der Gesteinsgenese vergangenen Zeit abhängt. Diese Eigenschaft bleibt auch während der Bleigewinnung aus dem Erz, meist Galenit, erhalten, auch wenn das Silber vorher durch Kupellation abgetrennt wurde687. Das in Silbererzen enthaltene Blei war ein willkommenes Nebenprodukt der Erzverhüttung und wurde zur Herstellung von Bleiobjekten verwendet. Artefakte, die aus dem so gewonnenen Blei gefertigt wurden, spiegeln daher die Bleiisotopenzusammensetzung der verwendeten Rohmaterialien wider.
Isotope reference materials are needed to calibrate and validate analytical procedures used for the determination of isotope amount ratios, procedurally defined isotope ratios or so-called δ values. In contrast to the huge analytical progress in isotope ratio analytics, the production of isotope reference materials has not kept pace with the increasing needs of isotope analysts. Three representative isotope systems are used to explain the technical and non-technical difficulties and drawbacks, on one hand, and to demonstrate what can be achieved at its best, on the other hand. A clear statement is given that new isotope reference materials are needed to obtain traceable and thus comparable data, which is essential for all kinds of isotope research. The range of available isotope reference materials and δ reference materials should be increased and matrix reference materials certified for isotope compositions or δ values, which do not exist yet, should be provided.