Metals

OnSite Environmental, Inc.’s (OnSite) metals department offers a wide range of analytical capabilities. We provide trace metals analyses in drinking water, wastewater, soil and waste matrices. We also provide analyses in support of international import/export regulations. Inorganic analyses are routinely performed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and cold vapor mercury atomic absorbtion (CVAA).OnSite’s inorganic department participates in semi-annual single-blind performance evaluation studies to verify the laboratory’s performance proficiency. This performance evaluation program includes over 1,000 laboratories throughout the US and Canada and demonstrates our laboratory’s proficiency as compared to other laboratories.Sample Preparation There are several options available for sample preparation, including microwave, hot block and hotplate methods. OnSite develops a preparation plan for each set of samples, choosing the digestion technique that will provide the best analytical results. Our metals department uses only high-purity de-ionized water and low trace metal digestion acids for all sample preparations.

Aluminum Al Chromium Cr Mercury Hg Strontium Sr

Antimony Sb Cobalt Co Molybdenum Mo Thallium Tl

Arsenic As Copper Cu Nickel Ni Tin Sn

Barium Ba Gold Au Platinum Pt Titanium Ti

Beryllium Be Iron Fe Potassium K Tungsten W

Bismuth Bi Lead Pb Selenium Se Vanadium V

Boron B Lithium Li Silicon Si Zinc Zn

Cadmium Cd Magnesium Mg Silver Ag Zirconium Zr

Calcium Ca Manganese Mn Sodium Na . .

Analytical methods are listed below:

EPA 200.7 Trace Metals by ICP

EPA 200.8/245.1 Trace Metals by ICP/MS (low-level determinations)

EPA 6010C Trace Metals by ICP

EPA 6020A Trace Metals by ICP/MS (low-level determinations)

EPA 7196A/SM 3500-Cr Hexavalent Chromium

EPA 7471B/7470A Mercury