The department of Inorganic Environmental Chemistry has instruments for the trace analysis of inorganic and particulate pollutants and for the determination of isotope ratios in a wide range of environmental samples. Various ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) instruments are primarily available for the determination of element concentrations and isotope ratios. In addition, coupling with chromatographic separation methods allows the speciation of elements to be analysed. Different imaging and spectroscopic devices are used to analyse microplastics and other particulate analytes.