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SolidSample ICPMS

Quantitative Multielement Analysis of Solid Samples by ICPMS

Minimal Sample Prep

Accelerate workflows and measurement from weeks to hours

Solution-Level Accuracy

Achieve linearity and quantitation on par or better than liquid ICPMS

Robotic Sample Handling

Fully automated workflow, from sample handling to data reporting

SolidSample ICPMS Overview

A Faster, Safer Solution to Solid Sample Analysis

SolidSample ICPMS

Improve Analytical Workflows, Data Quality, and Sample Turnaround

SolidSample ICPMS enhances elemental analysis for solid sample workflows by fully automating sample handling, direct solids analysis, and data processing. By eliminating labor-intensive and hazardous acid dissolution steps, SolidSample ICPMS improves throughput and lab safety. Using matrix-matched calibration standards that never expire, the system achieves analytical precision and accuracy once limited to traditional solution-based techniques. Whether processing dozens or thousands of samples daily, SolidSample ICPMS provides a scalable, reliable platform that streamlines operations, conserves resources, and achieves reproducible elemental data with minimal manual intervention.

  • Automated 24/7 analysis of samples by ICP or ICPMS
  • Integrated sample tracking enhances data reliability and integrity
  • Acid-free sample preparation saves time, lowers costs, and improves lab safety

SolidSample ICPMS Gallery

How it Works

Complex workflows are simplified into a single, fully automated method with SolidSample ICPMS. Samples automatically transition through accomodation, barcode tracking, and analysis, before finally being re-accomodated. This automated method saves time and costs, reduces errors and increases throughput.

Applications

SolidSample ICPMS is designed for versatility, making it suitable for a wide range of applications.

Mineral Exploration
Geochemistry
Battery Manufacture and Testing
Soils and Sediments
Foodchain Safety
Ore Screening
Materials Quality Control
Waste Product Screening

Sample Types

SolidSample ICPMS delivers accurate, reproducible elemental data across diverse sample types.

Fusion Beads
Pressed Battery Materials
Glass
Metals and Alloys
Plastics
Food/Plant Materials
Papers/Filters
Any Abrasively Sampled Material

Primary Features & Benefits

Redefining Solid Sample Analysis

Transform solid sample analysis with automation. Get solution-level accuracy and real-time results—no acids, no labor, no downtime.

Eliminate Sample Digestion

  • Acid-Free Sample Prep – Direct solid analysis eliminates hazardous reagents and minimizes contamination risk.
  • Multielement Efficiency – Achieve higher analytical output compared with traditional four-acid-digestion workflows.
  • Accelerate Workflows - Significantly reduce sample turnaround down to minutes.

Solution-Level Accuracy

  • SolidStandards Never Expire - Ensuring long-term analytical confidence.
  • Solution-Level Accuracy – Consistently achieve R² ≥ 0.995 and often > 0.9995 with recoveries in the range of ± 5%.
  • Consistent Data Quality – Matrix-matched calibration standards maintain precise and accurate instrument calibration.

Robotic Sample Handling with Barcode Tracking

  • End-to-End Automation – Continuous, 24/7 precision with real-time results and sample tracking through the analytical workflow.
  • High-Capacity Analysis – Automated processing of over 1,000 solid samples per run.
  • Seamless Data Integration and Reporting - Data is automatically processed with quantified results available for immediate review, reporting, and export to LIMS.

What Makes SolidSample ICPMS Better than the Rest?

Enabled by a robust ion source, multielement measurement capability, and low detection limits, SolidSample ICPMS delivers solution-level accuracy and trace detection directly on solid samples, without the need for acid digestion. With a mass spectrum dominated by singly charged ions, the system ensures stable, predictable quantification, while gas modes and QQQ effectively resolve remaining mass spectral interferences. Automation, together with precision and speed, makes SolidSample ICPMS a highly advanced and efficient approach for direct solids analysis.

1. SolidSample ICPMS vs Solution-based Digestion

SolidSample ICPMS analyzes solid samples directly, eliminating the need for hazardous and time-intensive acid digestion. By eliminating digestion, it reduces the risks of contamination, sample loss, and chemical waste, resulting in a safer, faster, and more sustainable workflow. Linearity and quantitation remain uncompromised, ensuring the same analytical accuracy as traditional solution-based ICPMS.

2. SolidSample ICPMS vs XRF

SolidSample ICPMS achieves low-to-sub-ppb detection limits with true quantitative accuracy. It can detect critical minerals up to 3X below the detection capabilities of XRF, enabling laboratories to characterize trace and ultra-trace elemental signatures with far greater certainty. The system’s direct connection to an ICP or ICPMS ensures efficient transfer and precise measurement of the sampled area without loss or contamination.

3. SolidSample ICPMS vs Glow Discharge Techniques

SolidSample ICPMS delivers low-to-sub-ppb detection capabilities. A singly charged ion mass spectrum combined with gas modes and QQQ resolve mass spectral interferences. Reusable matrix-matched calibration standards do not expire and ensure consistent accurate results. The high level of automation and rapid sample throughput make it ideally suited for high-volume or complex matrix workflows.

4. SolidSample ICPMS vs Spark Source Techniques

SolidSample ICPMS offers simple singly-charged mass spectra for clear quantification of most elements in most sample types. Remaining interferences are eliminated using either collision/reaction gases or QQQ ICPMS. Capable of processing dozens to over 1,000 samples per day, at low-to-sub-ppb detection limits, it provides fast, consistent, and reliable results. Automatic data processing delivers meaningful, ready-to-use results that support immediate sample evaluation.

Software

Data Processing Software, Powered by Iolite

SolidSample ICPMS Software uses smart outlier rejection, spline interpolations, and 3D calibrations to deliver the most accurate results possible.

Tailored to Your Workflow

Data processing is customized based on the required workflow, via data processing templates, to ensure your lab's specific applications needs are met.

Software - Tailored to your workflow

Rapid Data Output

Export-ready data files are generated within seconds of each analysis, with results automatically associated to barcode ID for traceability.

Software - Rapid Data Output

Reliable Results and Transparent Processing

Real time results are delivered using field proven algorithms by ESL's iolite data processing team - ensuring the integrity of your results!

Software - Reliable results and Transparent Processing

Application Data Quality

Proven Analytical Performance

Calibration curves and element recovery data validate the precision, sensitivity, and reproducibility of the SolidSample ICPMS. Across diverse sample types, the system consistently delivers accurate, quantitative results that meet the highest analytical standards.

Recoveries (n=20 replicate solid sample analyses)



Examples of Calibration Curve Linearity from SolidStandards

Lead - 208
Arsenic - 75
Magnesium - 24
Molybdenum - 95
Cobalt - 59
Neodymium - 146

Application Notes & Files

Explore our collection of SolidSample ICPMS application notes and product resources to discover detailed experiments, techniques, and findings relevant to laser ablation and advanced analytical applications.

Rapid and Accurate Determination of Trace Elements in Copper Concentrate Fused Beads

Rapid and Accurate Determination of Trace Elements in Copper Concentrate Fused Beads

SolidSample ICPMS delivers rapid, acid-free analysis of copper concentrate fused beads. Using matrix-matched standards, it achieved R² ≥ 0.999 and ±5% recoveries over a 75-hour run. With robotic handling, barcode tracking, and automated data reduction, the system cut analysis time from weeks to minutes while maintaining solution-level accuracy for high-throughput mining applications.
SolidSample High-throughput Automated Determining of Rare Earth-bearing Ores by LA-ICPMS

Determination of REE in Fusions

SolidSample ICPMS integrates robotic sample handling with laser ablation ICPMS to enable high-throughput, acid-free quantification of rare earth elements (REEs) in fused geological samples. This system consistently achieved R² ≥ 0.999, equivalent to or better than liquid ICPMS, for 50 different elements. It delivered sub-ppm detection limits and robust calibration across a wide concentration range.
Automated Multielement Analysis of Large Batches

Automated Multielement Analysis of Large Batches

With fully automated sample handling, barcode tracking, and real-time data processing, SolidSample ICPMS conducts multielement analysis of lithium tetraborate fusion beads, eliminating the need for acid digestion and complex sample preparation. Designed for seamless integration with existing XRF workflows, the system enables direct analysis of solid samples, simplifying the analytical process while enhancing sensitivity and elemental coverage. Achieve accurate and reproducible results for over 50 elements—including trace metals and rare earths—at detection limits down to single-digit ppb levels.

Automated Screening for Toxic Metals

SolidSample ICPMS offers an acid-free solution for detecting trace toxic metals in plastic materials and products, addressing critical regulatory concerns across medical, food-grade, consumer, and environmental applications. This system enables direct analysis of solid plastics, while delivering high sensitivity and throughput. Using helium collision cell technology to reduce spectral interferences, SolidSample ICPMS achieves detection limits in the low ng/g range for key toxic elements. The system demonstrates excellent accuracy and reproducibility across multiple batches, with recoveries near 100% and no false positives.
LA-ICPMS vs XRF Periodic Table

SolidSample ICPMS vs XRF Periodic Table

SolidSample ICPMS detects more than three times as many elements, with superior detection limits, compared to XRF. The system enables comprehensive elemental analysis within a single system, no need to switch methods to capture the full elemental range. SolidSample ICPMS is a complete, all-in-one solution for precise and efficient trace elemental analysis.
SolidSample ICPMS Features Diagram

SolidSample ICPMS Features Diagram

The SolidSample ICPMS integrates multiple automated features designed for high-throughput solid-state elemental analysis. Robotic sample handling, application-specific laser modules, and the SelfSeal sample chamber combine to simplify complex workflows into a single, seamless method.

Customer Service

Expert Support Every Step of the Way

At ESL, we believe in ensuring our client's success through great support. That's why our team will work closely with you throughout the entire process - from the first quote, to long after installation.

Before You Buy

Our team of automation experts will make sure every detail of SolidSample ICPMS aligns with your workflow so you get exactly what you need.

After Purchase

We tailor the system's software methods to match your specific protocols, typically based on your lab's SOPs. You won't be left to figure it out - we'll build your methods for you.

At Installation

ESL experts provide hands-on training to your team, showing how to use the intuitive software and run your methods confidently from day one.

Continued Support

Long after installation, we continue to support you. Whether it's method updates, software questions, or workflow changes, our expert team is always just a call or email away.


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Automate Your Lab with SolidSample ICPMS

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