HICO-1: High Purity Cobalt Certified Reference Material for Cobalt Mass Fraction and Elemental Impurities

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HICO-1 : Matériau de référence certifié de cobalt de pureté élevée pour la fraction massique du cobalt et les impuretés élémentaires

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DOI

Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/crm.2024.hico-1

Author

Search for: Yang, Lu¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6896-8603; Search for: Methven, Brad¹; Search for: Mihai, Ovidiu¹; Search for: Brophy, Christine¹; Search for: Grinberg, Patricia¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1167-6474; Search for: Meija, Juris¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-5535; Search for: Mester, Zoltan¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-2615

Affiliation

National Research Council Canada

Format

3D, Material

Material type

High-purity material

Subject

Canadian reference material; HICO-1; cobalt; elemental impurities

Abstract

HICO-1 is a high purity cobalt Certified Reference Material (CRM). A unit of HICO-1 consists of approximately 1.0 g of high purity cobalt pieces. This material is intended as a primary standard for the determination of mass fraction of cobalt.

Analytes

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Analyte	Quantity	Value	Expanded uncertainty	Unit	Type
cobalt	mass fraction	0.999963	0.000059	kg/kg	certified
lithium	mass fraction	<1	2	µg/kg	certified
beryllium	mass fraction	<0.8	0.4	µg/kg	certified
boron	mass fraction	1	11	µg/kg	certified
carbon	mass fraction	3000	35000	µg/kg	certified
nitrogen	mass fraction	200	1900	µg/kg	certified
oxygen	mass fraction	3000	33000	µg/kg	certified
fluorine	mass fraction	<10	30	µg/kg	certified
sodium	mass fraction	10	170	µg/kg	certified
magnesium	mass fraction	1	28	µg/kg	certified
aluminium	mass fraction	10	230	µg/kg	certified
silicon	mass fraction	10	150	µg/kg	certified
phosphorus	mass fraction	<2	1	µg/kg	certified
sulfur	mass fraction	10	20	µg/kg	certified
chlorine	mass fraction	400	2600	µg/kg	certified
potassium	mass fraction	<330	360	µg/kg	certified
calcium	mass fraction	9	33	µg/kg	certified
scandium	mass fraction	<0.7	0.5	µg/kg	certified
titanium	mass fraction	80	1500	µg/kg	certified
vanadium	mass fraction	<0.4	0.2	µg/kg	certified
chromium	mass fraction	1	131	µg/kg	certified
manganese	mass fraction	<1	1	µg/kg	certified
iron	mass fraction	2500	1700	µg/kg	certified
nickel	mass fraction	19000	9500	µg/kg	certified
copper	mass fraction	2300	3400	µg/kg	certified
zinc	mass fraction	<20	10	µg/kg	certified
gallium	mass fraction	2	7	µg/kg	certified
germanium	mass fraction	<10	10	µg/kg	certified
arsenic	mass fraction	<8	4	µg/kg	certified
selenium	mass fraction	<30	10	µg/kg	certified
bromine	mass fraction	<10	30	µg/kg	certified
rubidium	mass fraction	<2	16	µg/kg	certified
strontium	mass fraction	<1	2	µg/kg	certified
yttrium	mass fraction	<1	1	µg/kg	certified
zirconium	mass fraction	<0.9	0.5	µg/kg	certified
niobium	mass fraction	<0.6	0.9	µg/kg	certified
molybdenum	mass fraction	<5	3	µg/kg	certified
ruthenium	mass fraction	180	480	µg/kg	certified
rhodium	mass fraction	<6	9	µg/kg	certified
palladium	mass fraction	<6	3	µg/kg	certified
silver	mass fraction	160	130	µg/kg	certified
cadmium	mass fraction	<20	10	µg/kg	certified
indium	mass fraction	<4	3	µg/kg	certified
tin	mass fraction	300	200	µg/kg	certified
antimony	mass fraction	2	3	µg/kg	certified
tellurium	mass fraction	4	11	µg/kg	certified
iodine	mass fraction	<1	2	µg/kg	certified
caesium	mass fraction	<3	4	µg/kg	certified
barium	mass fraction	<8	12	µg/kg	certified
lanthanum	mass fraction	<1200	700	µg/kg	certified
cerium	mass fraction	<1	1	µg/kg	certified
praseodymium	mass fraction	<0.3	0.9	µg/kg	certified
neodymium	mass fraction	<1	1	µg/kg	certified
samarium	mass fraction	<1	3	µg/kg	certified
europium	mass fraction	<1	2	µg/kg	certified
gadolinium	mass fraction	<1	4	µg/kg	certified
terbium	mass fraction	<0.3	0.9	µg/kg	certified
dysprosium	mass fraction	<1	3	µg/kg	certified
holmium	mass fraction	<0.3	0.9	µg/kg	certified
erbium	mass fraction	<1	3	µg/kg	certified
thulium	mass fraction	<0.3	0.9	µg/kg	certified
ytterbium	mass fraction	<1	3	µg/kg	certified
lutetium	mass fraction	<1	2	µg/kg	certified
hafnium	mass fraction	<3	3	µg/kg	certified
tantalum	mass fraction	<8000	33000	µg/kg	certified
tungsten	mass fraction	<3	3	µg/kg	certified
rhenium	mass fraction	<3	4	µg/kg	certified
osmium	mass fraction	<8	11	µg/kg	certified
iridium	mass fraction	<4	5	µg/kg	certified
platinum	mass fraction	<5	3	µg/kg	certified
gold	mass fraction	<700	400	µg/kg	certified
mercury	mass fraction	<40	30	µg/kg	certified
thallium	mass fraction	190	230	µg/kg	certified
lead	mass fraction	400	300	µg/kg	certified
bismuth	mass fraction	<4	2	µg/kg	certified
thorium	mass fraction	<0.5	0.6	µg/kg	certified
uranium	mass fraction	<0.6	0.8	µg/kg	certified

Publication date

2024-05-01

Publisher

National Research Council Canada

Access condition

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Collection

Canadian Reference Materials and Methods

Record identifier

5546f817-be82-4a83-9b01-b97dbd3c959d

Record created

2024-06-04

Record modified

2025-11-20

Date modified:: 2025-12-17