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Chemical Reference Materials: Setting the Standards for Ocean Science (2002)

Chapter: Appendix E: Reference Materials Listed Within This Report

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Reference Materials Listed Within This Report." National Research Council. 2002. Chemical Reference Materials: Setting the Standards for Ocean Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10476.

APPENDIX E
Reference Materials Listed within this Report

Any current comprehensive, printed, list of reference materials for ocean science would quickly become obsolete as new materials are produced and others go out of stock. Perhaps the most complete list produced to date is that assembled by Dr. Adrianna Cantillo of the NOAA Status and Trends Program:

Cantillo, A.Y. 1995. Standard and Reference Materials for Environmental Science (Part 1 and Part 2). NOAA Technical Memo. 94. NOAA/ NOS/ORCA, Silver Spring, MD. 752 pp.

Another list of environmentally relevant reference materials is maintained at the IAEA web-site (http://www.iaea.or.at/programmes/nahunet/e4/nmrm/). Nevertheless, new materials are produced each year, and older ones run out and are not replaced so it is important to keep such lists current.

Clearly this is an arena in which computer database technology has a major role to play. Perhaps the best developed such database is COMAR (an index Code of Reference Materials). This database tries to provide an up-to-date way to locate CRMs from all around the world. The Central Secretariat is presently housed at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany. Further information is available at the COMAR website (http://www.comar.bam.de/). Nevertheless, this database is not restricted to ocean science applications (indeed

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they represent a very small fraction of available reference materials), and is not particularly user-friendly.

There is thus a need for a searchable, ocean science specific, database of currently available reference materials, and one of the recommendations of this report is that such a database be developed and maintained by the ocean science community.

Reference materials cited in this report, currently available for use in ocean science.

Identifier	Matrix	Analyzed For	Source (see footnotes)
Ocean CO₂ RMs	Natural Seawater	Total Dissolved Inorganic carbon, Total Alkalinty	Dr. A. G. Dickson, U.C. San Diego⁽¹⁾
DOC-CRM	Natural Seawater	Dissolved Organic Carbon	Dr. D. Hansell, U. Miami⁽²⁾
FIRI A, B (†)	Kauri Wood	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow ⁽³⁾
FIRI C	Turbidite Carbonate	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow
FIRI E	Humic Acid	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow
FIRI G, J	Barley Mash	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow
FIRI H	German Oak Dendro-dated Wood	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow
FIRI I	Belfast Scots Pine Dendro-dated Wood Cellulose	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow
FIRI K	Cambridge Dendro-wood Whole Wood & Cellulose	pMC	Dr. E. M. Scott, U. Glasgow
IAEA-315 (*)	Marine Sediment	Radionuclides	IAEA ⁽⁴⁾
IAEA-356 (*)	Polluted Marine Sediment	Trace Elements & Methyl Mercury	IAEA
IAEA-368 (*)	Marine Sediment	Radionuclides	IAEA
IAEA-381	Natural Seawater	Radionuclides	IAEA
IAEA-383 (*)	Marine Sediment	Organic Contaminants	IAEA
IAEA-384 (*)	Lagoon Sediment	Radionuclides	IAEA (available soon)
IAEA-408 (*)	Marine Sediment	Organic Contaminants	IAEA

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Identifier	Matrix	Analyzed For	Source (see footnotes)
IAEA-C1	Carrara Marble	δ¹³C, pMC	IAEA
IAEA-C2	Freshwater Travertine	δ¹³C, pMC	IAEA
IAEA-C3	Cellulose, 1989 Growth of Tree	δ¹³C, pMC	IAEA
IAEA-C5	Sub-fossil Wood E. Wisconsin Forest	δ¹³C, pMC	IAEA
IAEA-C6	Sucrose (ANU)	δ¹³C, pMC	IAEA
IAEA-CO-1	CaCO₃ (Carrara Marble)	δ¹³C	IAEA
IAEA-CO-8
(IAEA-KST)	CaCO₃ (Calcite)	δ¹³C	IAEA
IAEA-CO-9
(IAEA-NZCH)	Barium Carbonate	δ¹³C	IAEA
LSVEC
SRM 8455	Lithium Carbonate	δ¹³C	IAEA (out of stock at NIST)
SRM 1648 (*)	Urban Atmospheric Particulate	Trace Elements	NIST⁽⁵⁾
SRM 1649A (*)	Urban Dust	Organic Constituents	NIST
SRM 1650A (*)	Diesel Particulate	Organic Constituents	NIST (being replaced)
SRM 1939 (*)	River Sediment	PCBs & Chlorinated Pesticides	NIST
SRM 1941B (*)	Marine Sediment	Various Organics	NIST (in prep.)
SRM 1944 (*)	New York/New Jersey Waterway Sediment	Various Organics	NIST
SRM 1945 (*)	Whale Blubber	PCBs & Chlorinated Pesticides	NIST
SRM 4321C	1 M HNO₃	²³⁸U, ²³⁵U, ²³⁴U	NIST
SRM 4325	BeCl₂ solution	¹⁰Be/⁹Be	NIST
SRM 4339B	1.4 M HCl ?	²²⁸Ra	NIST (in prep.)
SRM 4350B	River Sediment	Radionuclides	NIST
SRM 4357	Marine Sediment	Radionuclides	NIST
SRM 4361C	Water	³H	NIST
SRM 4969	1.5 M HCl	²²⁶Ra	NIST
SRM 4990C	Oxalic Acid Powder	¹⁴C	NIST
RM 8452	Sucrose (ANU)	δ¹³C, pMC	NIST
SRM 8454	CaCO₃	δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O	NIST, IAEA
NBS 19 (TS-limestone)
RM 8539	Oil	δ²H, δ¹³C	NIST, IAEA
NBS 22

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Identifier	Matrix	Analyzed For	Source (see footnotes)
RM 8540 PEF1	Polyethylene	δ²H, δ¹³C	NIST, IAEA
IAEA-CH-7
RM 8541	C (graphite)	δ¹³C	NIST, IAEA
USGS24
RM 8562	CO₂ gas	δ¹³C	NIST, IAEA
RM 8563	CO₂ gas	δ¹³C	NIST, IAEA
RM 8564	CO₂ gas	δ¹³C	NIST, IAEA
IAEA-NGS1	Natural Gas (Coal)	δ²H, d¹³C	NIST-ACG⁽⁶⁾
IAEA-NGS2	Natural Gas (Oil)	δ²H, d¹³C	NIST-ACG
IAEA-NGS3	Natural Gas (Biogenic)	δ²H, δ¹³C	NIST-ACG
HISS-1 (*)	Marine Sediment	Trace Metals	NRC-IMB, Canada⁽⁷⁾
HS-3B (*)	Harbor Sediment	Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons	NRC-IMB, Canada
HS-4B (*)	Harbor Sediment	Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons	NRC-IMB, Canada
HS-5 (*)	Harbor Sediment	Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons	NRC-IMB, Canada
HS-6 (*)	Harbor Sediment	Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons	NRC-IMB, Canada
SES-1 (*)	Estuarine Sediment	Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons	NRC-IMB, Canada
CARP-2 (*)	Ground Whole Carp	Organochlorine Compounds	NRC-INMS, Canada⁽⁸⁾
DOLT-2 (*)	Dogfish Liver	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
DORM-2 (*)	Dogfish Muscle	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
LUTS-1 (*)	Non-defatted Lobster Hepatopancreas	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
MESS-3 (*)	Marine Sediment	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
NASS-5	Natural Seawater	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
PACS-2 (*)	Marine Sediment	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
TORT-2 (*)	Lobster Hepatopancreas	Trace Metals	NRC-INMS, Canada
IAPSO Standard Seawater	Natural Seawater	Salinity	Ocean Scientific International Ltd.⁽⁹⁾
CSK Standard Solutions (various)	3.05% NaCl Solution	Nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, silicate	Wako Pure Chemical Industries⁽¹⁰⁾
CSK Standard Solution	Potassium Iodate (0.0100N)	For oxygen titration	Wako Pure Chemical Industries
MAG-1 (*)	Marine Sediment	Elemental Composition	USGS⁽¹¹⁾

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Table Footnotes

†4th International Radiocarbon Intercomparison (Bryant et al., 2001; Boaretto et al., in press): http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~marian/intercomp.html

*These RMs were suggested in Table 4.2 as materials that could be useful for organic analyses (though not explicitly designed for such constituents).

Sources for RMs mentioned in Table:

(1) Dr. Andrew Dickson: http://www-mpl.ucsd.edu/people/adickson/CO2_QC/ (Contact: co2rms@mpl.ucsd.edu)

(2) Dr. Dennis Hansell: http://www.bbsr.edu/Labs/hanselllab/crm.html (Contact: wenchen@rsmas.miami.edu)

(3) Prof E M Scott, Dept of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW UK (marian@stats.gla.ac.uk)

(4) IAEA: http://www.iaea.org/programmes/aqcs/

(5) NIST: http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/232/232.htm

(6) NIST Atmospheric Chemistry Group: http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div837/837.01/outputs/standards/StdMat.htm

(7) NRC-IMB, Canada: http://www.imb.nrc.ca/crmp_e.html

(8) NRC-INMS, Canada: http://www.ems.nrc.ca/ems1.htm

(9) Ocean Scientific: http://www.oceanscientific.com/seawaterdivision.htm

(10) Although these were originally distributed by the Sagami Chemical Research Center, they are now available from Wako Pure Chemical Industries through their on-line catalog (Keyword: CSK): http://www.wako-chem.co.jp/specialty/

(11) U.S. Geological Survey: http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/geo_chem_stand/

Additional sources for Reference Materials:

(1) A limited selection of environmental reference materials is also available from the European Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements in Belgium: http://www.irmm.jrc.be/

(2) International Steering Committee for Black Carbon Reference http://www.du.edu/~dwismith/bcsteer.html