HICU-1: High Purity Copper Certified Reference Material for Copper Mass Fraction, Atomic Weight, Isotopic Composition, and Elemental Impurities

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HICU-1 : Matériau de référence certifié de cuivre de pureté élevée pour la fraction massique, la masse atomique, la composition isotopique et les impuretés élémentaires du cuivre

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DOI

Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/crm.2020.hicu-1

Author

Search for: Methven, Brad¹; Search for: Pihillagawa Gedara, Indumathi¹; Search for: Pagliano, Enea¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9755-8737; Search for: Grinberg, Patricia¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1167-6474; Search for: Yang, Lu¹ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6896-8603; 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; HICU-1; copper; elemental impurities

Abstract

HICU-1 is a high purity copper Certified Reference Material (CRM). A unit of HICU-1 consists of approximately 0.9 g of high purity copper wire. This material is intended as a primary standard for the determination of mass fraction of copper and as an isotopic standard of copper.

Analytes

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Analyte	Quantity	Value	Expanded uncertainty	Unit	Type
copper	mass fraction	0.999993	0.000006	kg/kg	certified
copper	atomic weight	63.54607	0.00018	1	certified
copper-63	isotopic abundance	0.69148	0.00009	mol/mol	certified
copper-65	isotopic abundance	0.30852	0.00009	mol/mol	certified
⁶³Cu/⁶⁵Cu	isotope ratio	2.2413	0.0009	mol/mol	certified
⁶⁵Cu/⁶³Cu	isotope ratio	0.44617	0.00018	mol/mol	certified
⁶⁵Cu/⁶³Cu	isotope delta vs SRM976	-0.04	0.03	permille	certified
lithium	mass fraction	<0.1	0.1	µg/kg	certified
beryllium	mass fraction	<0.07	0.04	µg/kg	certified
boron	mass fraction	18	9	µg/kg	certified
carbon	mass fraction	560	6000	µg/kg	certified
nitrogen	mass fraction	68	680	µg/kg	certified
oxygen	mass fraction	2780	800	µg/kg	certified
fluorine	mass fraction	<3	8	µg/kg	certified
sodium	mass fraction	0.7	0.9	µg/kg	certified
magnesium	mass fraction	2	1	µg/kg	certified
aluminium	mass fraction	45	18	µg/kg	certified
silicon	mass fraction	250	100	µg/kg	certified
phosphorus	mass fraction	23	50	µg/kg	certified
sulfur	mass fraction	1000	200	µg/kg	certified
chlorine	mass fraction	1	77	µg/kg	certified
potassium	mass fraction	<21	24	µg/kg	certified
calcium	mass fraction	<4	14	µg/kg	certified
scandium	mass fraction	<0.08	0.06	µg/kg	certified
titanium	mass fraction	7	1	µg/kg	certified
vanadium	mass fraction	60	20	µg/kg	certified
chromium	mass fraction	52	10	µg/kg	certified
manganese	mass fraction	17	3	µg/kg	certified
iron	mass fraction	1000	200	µg/kg	certified
cobalt	mass fraction	22	4	µg/kg	certified
nickel	mass fraction	110	22	µg/kg	certified
zinc	mass fraction	<10	6	µg/kg	certified
gallium	mass fraction	<0.6	0.3	µg/kg	certified
germanium	mass fraction	<0.9	2	µg/kg	certified
arsenic	mass fraction	<0.9	1	µg/kg	certified
selenium	mass fraction	<9	5	µg/kg	certified
bromine	mass fraction	<17	40	µg/kg	certified
rubidium	mass fraction	<0.5	0.7	µg/kg	certified
strontium	mass fraction	<0.08	0.1	µg/kg	certified
yttrium	mass fraction	<0.1	0.1	µg/kg	certified
zirconium	mass fraction	<0.2	0.1	µg/kg	certified
niobium	mass fraction	<0.2	0.6	µg/kg	certified
molybdenum	mass fraction	<6	6	µg/kg	certified
ruthenium	mass fraction	<4	6	µg/kg	certified
rhodium	mass fraction	<1010	600	µg/kg	certified
palladium	mass fraction	<4	6	µg/kg	certified
silver	mass fraction	48	10	µg/kg	certified
cadmium	mass fraction	<3	2	µg/kg	certified
indium	mass fraction	<0.4	0.2	µg/kg	certified
tin	mass fraction	13	4	µg/kg	certified
antimony	mass fraction	<0.5	0.3	µg/kg	certified
tellurium	mass fraction	<14	8	µg/kg	certified
iodine	mass fraction	<5	13	µg/kg	certified
caesium	mass fraction	<0.2	0.3	µg/kg	certified
barium	mass fraction	<3	4	µg/kg	certified
lanthanum	mass fraction	<0.2	0.1	µg/kg	certified
cerium	mass fraction	<0.04	0.02	µg/kg	certified
praseodymium	mass fraction	<0.1	0.1	µg/kg	certified
neodymium	mass fraction	<0.5	0.3	µg/kg	certified
samarium	mass fraction	<0.1	0.1	µg/kg	certified
europium	mass fraction	<0.08	0.09	µg/kg	certified
gadolinium	mass fraction	<0.2	0.2	µg/kg	certified
terbium	mass fraction	<0.05	0.06	µg/kg	certified
dysprosium	mass fraction	<0.1	0.1	µg/kg	certified
holmium	mass fraction	<0.05	0.06	µg/kg	certified
erbium	mass fraction	<0.2	0.2	µg/kg	certified
thulium	mass fraction	<0.05	0.06	µg/kg	certified
ytterbium	mass fraction	<0.1	0.1	µg/kg	certified
lutetium	mass fraction	<0.05	0.06	µg/kg	certified
hafnium	mass fraction	<0.3	0.3	µg/kg	certified
tantalum	mass fraction	<300	180	µg/kg	certified
tungsten	mass fraction	0.9	1	µg/kg	certified
rhenium	mass fraction	<0.4	0.6	µg/kg	certified
osmium	mass fraction	<0.9	1	µg/kg	certified
iridium	mass fraction	<0.9	1	µg/kg	certified
platinum	mass fraction	<0.8	1	µg/kg	certified
gold	mass fraction	<280	140	µg/kg	certified
mercury	mass fraction	<4	3	µg/kg	certified
thallium	mass fraction	<1	1	µg/kg	certified
lead	mass fraction	100	20	µg/kg	certified
bismuth	mass fraction	<0.5	0.3	µg/kg	certified
thorium	mass fraction	<0.06	0.09	µg/kg	certified
uranium	mass fraction	<0.07	0.1	µg/kg	certified

Publication date

2020-05-01

Publisher

National Research Council Canada

Access condition

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Collection

Canadian Reference Materials and Methods

Record identifier

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Record created

2021-02-22

Record modified

2025-11-20

Date modified:: 2025-12-17