Line selection and interference correction for the analysis of tungsten alloy by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry

A method for the analysis of tungsten alloy to determine selected elements using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy is described, with emphasis on line selection and spectral interference. The spectral interference coefficients were calculated for the spectral lines of selected major and trace elements. These values were used to select analytical lines and to calibrate concentrtions of the analytes, The detection limits of the elements for this method were determined and compared with those obtained by flame atomic absorption spectrometry and direct current carbon are emission spectrometry. The results indicated that the detection limits for all of the elements determined by the proposed method are significantly better than those obtained by other techniques. In this study, the analytical reliability of the proposed method was estimated by comparison of the analytical data for the two types of tungsten alloys produced by the Korean Tungsten Company with those obtained by the matrix matching method and the results indicated that the accuracy of multi-element analysis is satisfactory.