Romania – Mass spectrometer – Echipamente de cercetare pentru dotarea Laboratorului de radioizotopi

The subject of the contract is the supply of the products/equipment listed in the technical specifications, namely the supply of:

- Lot No. 1: TIMS (Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer): solid-source mass spectrometer: it will be dedicated to applications where isotopic measurements require the highest analytical precision. These include measurements of classic radiogenic isotopes on sediments, minerals, and rocks (87Sr/86Sr, 143Nd/144Nd, 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb), but also new innovative applications such as measurements of light isotopes of general geochemical interest (6Li/7Li, 9B/10B) and in climate change issues (42Ca/44Ca). In addition, short-lived isotopes (210Pb, 90Sr) relevant to problems of radioactive pollution and for geochronology on a scale of tens of years will be measured with TIMS.

- Lot No. 2: HR-ICP-MS (High Resolution Single Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer): the high-resolution, new-generation ICP-MS opens up the opportunity to measure non-traditional isotopes on a wide variety of materials, from rocks and minerals to plants and animals, archaeological artifacts, etc. In addition, with the help of the high-power laser and the spectrometer, U-Pb and Th-Pb geochronological measurements will be applied to zircons and other minerals (magmatic or detrital).