The invention provides a method for detecting content of trace
impurity content in
metal by a glow-
discharge mass spectrometry. The method comprises the following steps: 1)
processing a
metal sample to a sheet shape or a
needle shape, putting the
metal sample in a
nitric acid solution for performing ultrasonic cleaning, and
drying the material; 2)performing vacuum-pumping on a sample warehouse of a glow-
discharge mass spectrometer, opening a
ball valve, pushing the metal sample into an
ion source chamber, opening
high pressure and glow, introducing work gas, adjusting
discharge voltage and
discharge current, adjusting resolution to 3000-4800 through
ion source tuning, wherein the matrix
peak intensity is 0.05-0.25 V, and pre-
sputtering for 30-80 min; and 3) selecting a metal matrix and the
impurity element required to be determined, and performing a
direct current glow discharge mass spectrometry to obtain the concentration of metal trace
impurity. According to the invention,
grinding and
polishing are not required for a
cut sample according to the specification, the sample is only required for being cleaned,
pollution can be effectively avoided; sampling is directly carried out, operation is simple and easy; effective tuning is carried out on the
ion source, sensitivity is high,
detection limit is low, resolution is high, and one-time analysis of the main content elements to ppt-grade element can be carried out.