Design of a portable electrothermal vaporization flame atomic emission spectrometry device for field analysis

Instrumentation Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 345-356

  Hanna, Summer N ^a   Keene, Joseph ^a   Calloway, Clifton P ^b   Jones, Bradley T ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atomic emission spectrometry; electrothermal vaporization; portable instrumentation; welding torch

Indexed keywords

ALKALI EARTH METAL; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL FIELDS; ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION; EMISSION SIGNAL; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE; FIELD ANALYSIS; FIGURES OF MERITS; FLAME EMISSION SPECTROMETER; LIMITS OF DETECTION; PORTABLE DEVICE; PORTABLE INSTRUMENTATION; SAMPLE INTRODUCTION; TUNGSTEN COILS; TUNGSTEN FILAMENTS; VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMS; WELDING INDUSTRY; WELDING TORCH;

ACETYLENE; ATOMS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; METAL CUTTING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TUNGSTEN; VAPORIZATION; WELDING;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 79960784986     PISSN: 10739149     EISSN: 15256030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10739149.2011.585197     Document Type: Article

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