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Variation of trace elements in snow during starting and ending of snowfall in Kyoto city measured by low power total reflection X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry
Author(s) -
Damdinsuren Bolortuya,
Kawai Jun
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.2838
Subject(s) - snow , environmental science , spectrometer , reflection (computer programming) , trace (psycholinguistics) , trace element , analytical chemistry (journal) , atmospheric sciences , chemistry , mass spectrometry , environmental chemistry , meteorology , geology , optics , chromatography , physics , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , programming language , organic chemistry
This paper reports the variation of trace element concentrations in snow samples during the starting and ending of snowfalls in Kyoto, Japan, using a low power total reflection X‐ray fluorescence spectrometer to analyze trace elements (having atomic numbers from 13 to 28) in a sample with detection limits of ppb to ppm in concentration. The difference in concentrations indicates how much the urban air is refreshed due to falling snow. Cl, K, Ca, and Fe were determined in the snow samples, and their concentrations during snow starting were higher than at snow ending.