| Literature DB >> 21080513 |
Petra Lachouani1, Alexander H Frank, Wolfgang Wanek.
Abstract
Natural (15) N abundances (δ(15) N values) of different soil nitrogen pools deliver crucial information on the soil N cycle for the analysis of biogeochemical processes. Here we report on a complete suite of methods for sensitive δ(15) N analysis in soil extracts. A combined chemical reaction of vanadium(III) chloride (VCl(3) ) and sodium azide under acidic conditions is used to convert nitrate into N(2) O, which is subsequently analyzed by purge-and-trap isotope ratio mass spectrometry (PTIRMS) with a cryo-focusing unit. Coupled with preparation steps (microdiffusion for collection of ammonium, alkaline persulfate oxidation to convert total dissolved N (TDN) or ammonium into nitrate) this allows the determination of the δ(15) N values of nitrate, ammonium and total dissolved N (dissolved organic N, microbial biomass N) in soil extracts with the same basic protocol. The limits of quantification for δ(15) N analysis with a precision of 0.5‰ were 12.4 µM for ammonium, 23.7 µM for TDN, 16.5 µM for nitrate and 22.7 µM for nitrite.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 21080513 DOI： 10.1002/rcm.4798
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom ISSN： 0951-4198 Impact factor: 2.419