Heating rates in furnace atomic absorption using the L'vov platform

Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy
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Abstract

Heating rate profiles for the furnace tube wall, the furnace atmosphere, and a L'vov platform were established for a range of conditions in a cyclically heated graphite atomizer. The tube wall profile was made by direct observation with a recording optical pyrometer. The sodium line reversal method was used to establish the heating rate of the furnace atmosphere, and appearance temperatures for a series metals of differing volatility was used to establish platform profiles. The tube wall heating rate was nearly linear at 2240°C s until the desired temperature was reached after which the temperature remained constant. The furnace atmosphere reached a given temperature 0.2–0.4 s later than the tube wall through most of the atomize cycle. The platform lagged the tube wall 0.5–0.8 s. Under typical operating conditions the furnace atmosphere was 100–200°C cooler than the tube wall and at nearly constant temperature when the analyte vaporized from the platform. The L'vov platform causes the cyclically heated commercial furnace to approximate the behavior of a constant temperature furnace during atomization.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Heating rates in furnace atomic absorption using the L'vov platform
Series title Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy
DOI 10.1016/0584-8547(84)80048-8
Volume 39
Issue 2-3
Year Published 1984
Language English
Publisher Elsevier
Contributing office(s) Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
Description 7 p.
First page 407
Last page 413
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