微量水17O和18O同时测试新技术及其在水循环研究中的应用

微量水 三氧同位素 三氟化钴 同位素分馏 水循环
甘义群 2007-01 项目
【英文摘要】The new technique for the determination of 18O/16O and 17O/16O isotopic ratios in water from small liquid sample has been set up in our study for the first time in China. The sample preparation system we devised is composed of two parts: one is the stainless steel system; the other is the vacuum system made of glass. The sample preparation process can be divided into four steps: helium carrier gas purification, micro-water sample introduction and fluoridation reaction, oxygen gas purification and cryo-focusing, oxygen gas transference and collection. The fluorination step takes less than 20 min, while the total processing time of each sample is about 40 min. We have optimized the method of water fluorination using the solid reagent CoF3 to produce O2, with 2μl micro water. Before isotopic determination we also heat up the molecular sieve to make the oxygen gas desorbed more perfectly and reduce fractionation effect. The new technique allows isotope ratio measurements by dual-inlet mass spectrometry with very high precision of ±0.07‰, ±0.14‰ and ±0.04‰ for δ17O, δ18O and △17O. In particular, the method does not use the fluorination reagent BrF5 employed in traditional methods, is hence safer, cheaper, higher efficiency and more reliable than traditional means and accords with the environmental awareness and the people-oriented principle. For so many advantages the new technique can be required in a number of fields, such as geology, hydrology, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences and so on. Based on the new system, we have determine tri-oxygen composition of many different type samples from different regions (the Heihe River Basin, the drought area in northwestern China, the Yangtse River and the Lhasa River), but there was no Δ17O anomalous values founded both in the precipitation samples and other typical samples like snow-water and so on. In spit of the regret results, we also make use of the oxygen-18 and hydrogen-2 isotopes to trace the origin, formation environment and transformation of nature water. During the period we carrying out the research, we have met amount of difficulties and also made cooperation with many environmental isotopic authorities home and abroad, then got a bit of great achievements.
【中文摘要】在国内首次建立了微量水17O 和18O同时测试新技术。制样系统由金属线路和玻璃线路两部分组成,可实现在线分析与线外分析。制样步骤包括"载气纯化、进样及氟化反应、O2纯化和富集、O2转移和收集"四个部分。制样时间约40min,样品量为2μl。采用在质谱测试前将待测样品预热,使O2完全解吸的方法,避免了制样和测试过程中的记忆效应及分馏效应。δ18O、δ17O 和△17O分析精度分别为±0.14‰、±0.07‰和±0.04‰。该方法使用固体试剂CoF3替代剧毒的气态氟化物BrF5,制样流程更加安全可靠,再加之其用样量少、速度快、精度高等优点,使得该技术在地质学、水文学、海洋学、大气科学等领域具有广泛的应用前景。在建立测试方法的基础上,本项研究测试了大量样品,并绘制了大气降水δ17O-δ18O关系曲线和"地球分馏线",结果表明这些天然水体都遵守质量相关分馏定律,没有发现Δ17O异常。同时,本项目还利用氢氧同位素组成特征探讨了不同地区(黑河流域、西北干旱区、长江流域、西藏拉萨河)不同类型水体的来源、迁移、转化过程。在项目执行过程中,项目组与国内外开展了广泛、深入的合作交流,并取得了良好的成效。