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GeoPT2. International Proficiency Test for Analytical Geochemistry Laboratories - Report on Round 2

  1. Michael Thompson1,
  2. Philip J. Potts2,
  3. Jean S. Kane3,
  4. Peter C. Webb2,
  5. John S. Watson2

Article first published online: 22 MAY 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.1998.tb00552.x

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Geostandards Newsletter

Geostandards Newsletter

Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 127–156, June 1998

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Thompson, M., Potts, P. J., Kane, J. S., Webb, P. C. and Watson, J. S. (1998), GeoPT2. International Proficiency Test for Analytical Geochemistry Laboratories - Report on Round 2. Geostandards Newsletter, 22: 127–156. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.1998.tb00552.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College, Gordon House, London, WC1H 0PP, UK. e-mail: m.thompson@chemistry.bbk.ac.uk

  2. 2

    Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

  3. 3

    Robert J. Kane Associates Inc., HCR 4, Box 231, Brightwood, VA 22715, USA

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  1. Issue published online: 22 MAY 2007
  2. Article first published online: 22 MAY 2007

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Keywords:

  • proficiency testing;
  • GeoPT;
  • quality assurance;
  • silicate rock;
  • quality control
  • test de compétence;
  • GeoPT;
  • assurance-qualité;
  • roches silicatées;
  • contrôle qualité

Results from sixty laboratories participating in GeoPT2, the international proficiency testing programme for analytical geochemistry laboratories, are reported. Compared with 71.3% in the last round, 74.6% of the reported data complied with the laboratories’ selected fitness for purpose criteria.

Les résultats provenant des soixante laboratoires participant au GeoPT2, le programme international de test de compétence des laboratoires d'analyse géochimique sont présentés. Un pourcentage de 74,6 des résultats satisfont aux critères de qualité correspondant à ces laboratoires; ce chiffre naétait que de 71,3% lors du test précédent.

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