Ma. Belarra et al., EXPANDING THE WORKING CONCENTRATION RANGE IN GRAPHITE-FURNACE ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY - EFFECT OF NONSTOP FLOW ON THE DETERMINATION OF TIN, Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy, 52(8), 1997, pp. 1223-1227
Maintaining the carrier gas flow during the atomization step allows on
e to expand the working linear range in metal determinations by graphi
te furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS). The effect of this
operational mode on the precision of the analytical results for severa
l atomic lines of tin is studied using atomization from the tube wall
and from the platform. If atomization is carried out from the platform
, maintaining the argon flow has no significant statistical effect on
precision and allows the working range to be expanded to 8300 ng Sn vs
. 1400 ng in the stop-flow mode with atomization from the tube wall. (
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