Abstract: This invention provides an ink-jet recording medium which improves balance between ink absorption and print image quality by ink-jet printing and is excellent in quick drying properties after printing and has an ink absorbing layer with high image quality. In the ink-jet recording medium, at least one ink absorbing layer including a material containing 5 to 90 wt % of a calcium carbonate pigment in terms of solid content is disposed on one side or both sides of a substrate, and this calcium carbonate pigment is one in which silica formed from soda silicate and calcium chloride is subjected to chemical or physical adsorption treatment on the surface of calcium carbonate particles so that the weight ratio of SiO2 to CaO is in a range of 2.0 to 80%, and the calcium carbonate pigment and the silica are preferably intertwined into a spherical form of 0.3 to 20 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink-jet recording medium for use in industrial ink-jet printers which offers good printability and storage stability for outdoor and indoor applications. The ink-jet recording medium comprises an ink-absorption layer that absorbs the largest amount of ink of all the layers that constitute an ink-receiving layer on at least one surface of the substrate is composed of a material comprising porous pigment, a fixer and a binder, in which the fixer is an amphoteric fixer containing a cationic component that is cationic and an anionic component that is anionic, in which the molar ratio of the cationic component to the anionic component contained in the fixer is in the range between 1:0.01 and 1:0.5, and in which the percentage of the fixer contained in the ink-absorption layer ranges from 1 to 30% by weight of the solid content of the ink-absorption layer.

Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopic includes a sample introduction section for nebulizing a sample solution; an ionization section, including a torch, for ionizing a nebula of a sample solution that is carried with a carrier gas; an interface section for sampling the ionized elements in the nebula at an atmospheric pressure and directing ions of the ionized elements into an ion lens section under a vacuum; the ion lens portion, containing an ion beam guide, for converging the ions which have passed through the interface section wherein at least one part of the ion lens portion is a multipole ion beam guide with at least four electrode rods; a mass selection portion, having a mass filter, for filtering the ions based on the measured mass number; and a detection section for counting filtered ions.