You can probably find whatever you want. Popular are borosilicate glass and high density polypropylene. I quite like high density polystyrene. Basically have to decide for yourself whether your sample is going to leach anything from the vials, or whether your sample may adsorb onto the vials and go from there.

The solution will probably depend on the manufacturer (ie, a Thermo instrument will use something different to a Spectro Instrument). it would contain an element for each detector chip if there are many chips, and probably a range of elements to have emission wavelengths spread fairly evenly over the full range. Not sure how they would pick the elements exactly, but the elements are normally written on the bottle or certificate / MSDS.

Samples vials for use with ICP-OES could be made of glass/plastic/quartz etc. However, with Hydrofluoric acid one should use plastic ware only. The HF compatible sample introduction systems are available including plasma torchs.

I do not know about the CID type of detectors as I am using PMT based instrument.

Samples vials and glassare you will use it will depend what you wants to do and in which level. In general, glass is more affected by memory effects. The plastic vials sometimes have no good accuracy.

About the solutions with CID you have to ask to the ICPOES manufacture company. They will inform you the soltuions you need for checking ICP performance. For your work, you have to define the adequate solutions based on your goals.

For containers I agree with Victoria. In my lab I preferred to use polystyrene containers. In the case of wavelength calibration (if that was a question) I use ICAL solution (multielement acid solution) for instrument calibration for entire spectrum. Well, I have SPECTRO ARCOS.

Mohammad haneef,

Both instruments are almost used in Industry for heavy Metals detector like Hg, As,Pb & Cd etc.

care needs to be taken with glass when considering boron or sodium analysis at low levels a solution or digest blank should be run with each analysis along with the standards.

Care should be taken to avoid contamination from standard glassware as well when making up working standard solutions.

I've been told by experts from Perkin Elmer to eliminate glass from everything related to ICP-OES, or as much as possible, at least in my case. My preference was high density plastic. I was measuring Ag, Pb, Cr, Hg, Fe, Ni, Cu, Te, and Al in a radiopharmaceutical formulation of In-111. I used Perkin Elmer ICP standard solutions. Hg was always a problem. Have also looked at Ca as a contaminant released from panels in the ceiling of the ICP room.