Patent ID: 8309361

Claim:
A method for detecting at least one non-titanium analyte in a sample comprising titanium tetrachloride using an inductively coupled mass plasma spectrometer wherein the method comprises performing sequentially the following steps, (a) providing a sample comprising titanium tetrachloride wherein the titanium tetrachloride concentration is equal to or greater than 50% based on the total weight of the solution of the sample, (b) adding a stabilizing and aqueous hydrochloric acid to the sample and introducing the sample into the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer having a cell selected from the group of a reactive cell and a collision cell or both and producing a non-titanium analyte ion comprising at least one interfering species; (c) contacting the non-titanium analyte ion with a gas to produce a product which is substantially free of the interfering species; and (d) detecting and measuring at least one signal from the non-titanium analyte in the aqueous solution of the sample.