Glass Expansion Spray Chambers

The spray chamber is a crucial component of the ICP sample introduction system since it has a profound effect on transport efficiency, precision, and washout. Glass Expansion has a wide range of Spray Chambers to suit your needs, including the Tracey and Twister cyclonic spray chambers which revolutionized spray chamber design for the ICP industry.

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Tracey Cyclonic Spray Chamber

An industry standard

The Tracey cyclonic spray chamber is Glass Expansion's standard glass cyclonic spray chamber. It gives the best sensitivity, reproducibility, and lowest memory effects for standard ICP analyses.

  • Material: Borosilicate glass
  • Volume: 50mL
  • High sensitivity and reduced matrix effects
  • Physical reproducibility ~1%
  • Faster washout than older coaxial chamber designs
  • Low RSD's due to highly accurate construction
  • Positive stop for reproducible nebulizer insertion
  • Application uptake range 0.2 to 3.0mL/min
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Tracey PFA44 Spray Chamber

Ultra-pure spray chamber for ICP-MS

The extreme sensitivity of the ICP-MS technique demands exceptional purity in all sample introduction components. This is why we have developed a new range of PFA spray chambers for ICP-MS. The PFA44 spray chamber can be teamed with the OpalMist PFA nebulizer to form the highest purity, most inert sample introduction system available. There is a system to suit most ICP-MS models.

  • Made from ultra-pure PFA - ideal for ultra-trace ICP-MS analyses
  • Totally inert - impervious to organic solvents and strong acids, even HF
  • Established Tracey cyclonic design ensures excellent sensitivity and precision
  • Fast washout enables the highest possible sample throughput
  • Incorporates Helix nebulizer interface - no dead volume, smooth lock and release mechanism, no o'rings to replace
  • Volume 44mL

The interior of the Tracey PFA44 has the proprietary Stediflow surface treatment which improves the wettability of the surface and ensures efficient drainage. Without the Stediflow treatment, droplets tend to form on the surface and degrade both sensitivity and precision.

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Tracey PFA44

Tracey TFE Spray Chamber

HF-resistant spray chamber for ICP-OES

The Tracey TFE spray chamber replaces the old polypropylene HF-resistant spray chamber. It is made from PTFE (Teflon) which is more chemically resistant than polypropylene. The Tracey TFE spray chambers are specially treated to ensure efficient drainage and they offer better sensitivity and precision than the old polypropylene spray chambers. They can be teamed with HF-resistant nebulizers to form the ideal chemically inert sample introduction system for ICP-OES. There is a system available to suit most ICP-OES models.

  • Made from totally inert PTFE - impervious to organic solvents and strong acids, even HF
  • Established Tracey cyclonic design ensures excellent sensitivity and precision
  • Fast washout enables the highest possible sample throughput
  • Incorporates Helix nebulizer interface - no dead volume, smooth lock and release mechanism, no o'rings to replace
  • Volume 50mL

The interior of the Tracey TFE has the proprietary Stediflow surface treatment which improves the wettability of the surface and ensures efficient drainage. Without the Stediflow treatment, droplets tend to form on the surface and degrade both sensitivity and precision.

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Tracey TFE

Twister Cyclonic Spray Chamber

Reduces solvent load

The Twister cyclonic spray chamber features a central transfer tube that acts as a secondary particle separator helping separate larger aerosol particles from the sample. This reduces solvent load in the plasma without compromising detection limits.

  • Material: Borosilicate glass
  • Volume: 50mL
  • Physical reproducibility ~1%
  • Low RSD's - highly accurate construction similar to Tracey cyclonic, except with central transfer tube
  • Application uptake range 0.2 to 3.0mL/min
  • Produces smaller mean droplet size
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Cinnabar Cyclonic Spray Chamber

The low volume spray chamber for all ICPs

The Cinnabar spray chamber is a mini-cyclonic spray chamber that gives good sensitivity at very low uptakes. The Cinnabar's design and low volume are ideal for the reduction of memory and matrix effects and very fast washout.

  • Material: Borosilicate glass
  • Volume: 20mL
  • Physical reproducibility ~1%
  • Matrix effects 5 times lower than with coaxial chambers
  • Low RSD's due to highly accurate construction
  • Positive stop for reproducible nebulizer insertion
  • Application uptake range ~20 to 400 µL/min
  • Ideal for use with MicroMist nebulizers
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Twinnabar Cyclonic Spray Chamber

Low volume, low solvent load

The Twinnabar cyclonic spray chamber is a low volume spray chamber with a central transfer tube (or baffle), combining the benefits of the Twister and the Cinnabar. It combines excellent precision with a very fast washout.

  • Material: Borosilicate glass
  • Volume: 20mL
  • Physical reproducibility ~1%
  • Low RSD's due to highly accurate construction
  • Application uptake range ~20 to 400 µL/min
Twinnabar

Customer Comments

(In reference to the Twister spray chamber) Simply amazed at the RSD's we saw immediately and the stability in the plasma conditions. Thank you, it is a great upgrade for our system.

I have just installed and tested the Twister spray chamber and SeaSpray nebulizer on our Spectro™ Genesis ICP, and at this stage it appears to be performing very well, with sensitivities about twice what we were getting with the Scott/crossflow combination.

I would suggest the MicroMist nebulizer + Cinnabar spray chamber from Glass Expansion. I did some work on certification of Hg isotopic reference materials and it worked very well. I used this setup in the self-aspirating mode and gained wash-out times for Hg 10 ng/g (solution) 10 times better than with a usual Crossflow nebulizer.

After using a GE MicroMist nebulizer and Cinnibar spray chamber on our ICP-MS for several years with excellent results, I bought the same setup for our new PE 4300 ICP-OES for some applications with very small sample sizes. Sensitivity and precision are the same as with the standard cross-flow/Scott combination. Washout is maybe even better, since the Cinnibar washes out very nicely.

I love the SeaSpray nebulizer and Twister spray chamber I'm using on our Optima 3300DV, along with all the fittings and connectors that make it so easy to connect and also to disassemble for cleaning.

I switched from Spectro's™ Scott style spray chamber and cross-flow nebulizer to GE's Twister cyclonic spray chamber and SeaSpray nebulizer. I now get excellent performance with much faster washout times.

I replaced my cross-flow system with your MicroMist and Cinnabar spray chamber and get much better performance. Also, I am getting the same counts as I was getting on my cross-flow at twice the uptake rate.