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Table 2 Average recoveries and relative standard deviations (n = 69) of QC standards during LA-ICP-MS sessions: CMOG A for major and minor elements, NIST614 for trace elements

From: An archaeometric contribution to the interpretation of blue-green glass beads from Iron age Central Italy

CMOG A			NIST614
	Average recovery (%)	RSD (%)		Average recovery (%)	RSD (%)
²³Na	97	2.2	⁸⁵Rb	99	5.2
²⁴ Mg	100	5.9	⁸⁸Sr	98	0.3
²⁷Al	88	3.1	⁹⁰Zr	97	3.4
²⁸Si	92	3.2	¹³³Cs	97	1.6
³⁹ K	80	23	¹³⁸Ba	102	3.4
⁴⁸Ti	102	8.6	¹³⁹La	87	8.2
⁵¹ V	99	1.3	¹⁴⁰Ce	99	6.1
⁵⁵Mn	115	7.6	¹⁴⁴Nd	97	9.2
⁵⁷Fe	91	6.4	¹⁴⁷Sm	107	5.2
⁵⁹Co	96	0.7	¹⁵³Eu	78	0.1
⁶⁰Ni	111	1.2	¹⁵⁸Gd	107	4.8
⁶³Cu	74	37	¹⁵⁹ Tb	100	3.4
⁶⁴Zn	103	9.6	¹⁶³Dy	98	3.2
⁷⁵As	86	2.4	¹⁶⁶Er	112	12
¹¹⁸Sn	87	8.3	¹⁷⁴Yb	109	6.4
¹²¹Sb	96	11	¹⁷⁵Lu	105	4.7
²⁰⁸Pb	85	4.8	¹⁷⁷Hf	101	0.6
			²⁰⁵Tl	98	1.0
			²³²Th	95	6.3
			²³⁸U	100	0.7

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