does powder free of nitrile gloves lead to high zinc counts in ICP-MS?

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does powder free of nitrile gloves lead to high zinc counts in ICP-MS?

we used powder free of nitrile gloves and are wondering if these make zinc counts high in ICP-MS ? if so, what gloves should we do or we do not wear gloves during testing?

Thank you

Best regards,

Di Xu

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  • Hi Cheltajc, 

    Thank you for your suggestions. they are very helpful 

    we bought another kind of gloves which is made of polyethylene gloves which is transparent and tried it. it seems ok. 

    because our lab only has blue nitrile gloves, we will try vinyl gloves today which is white. Hopefully, it will be ok. 

    lastly, we will require to rinse gloves with DI water before we start preparing standard solutions. 

    Thank you 

    best regards, 

    Di Xu

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