Dataset: Test of potential mass to charge 30 interferences from O2

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.778083.1Version 1 (2019-10-02)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: Julie Granger (University of Connecticut)

Co-Principal Investigator: Annie Bourbonnais (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

Co-Principal Investigator: Samuel Wilson (University of Hawai'i)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Detection limit in marine nitrogen fixation measurements - Constraints of rates from the mesopelagic ocean (EAGER NitFix)


Abstract

Molecular oxygen (O2) has been documented to ionize partially to NO+ in mass spectrometer sources, generating a signal that overlaps with that of 15N2 (mass-to-charge of 30). Here, we tested whether O2 needs to be specifically removed from the sample streams of the Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer and the Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer in order to properly quantitate 15N2 atom% at pertinent concentrations. Sample streams with and without O2 yielded similar signals, suggesting that O2 does not i...

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Test of potential m/z 30 interferences from O2


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White, A. E., Granger, J., Selden, C., Gradoville, M. R., Potts, L., Bourbonnais, A., Fulweiler, R. W., Knapp, A. N., Mohr, W., Moisander, P. H., Tobias, C. R., Caffin, M., Wilson, S. T., Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Mulholland, M. R., & Chang, B. X. (2020). A critical review of the 15N2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 18(4), 129–147. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10353