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Tungsten Coil Electrothermal Vaporization for Atomic Spectroscopy

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Tungsten Coil Electrothermal Vaporization for Atomic Spectroscopy
author
Hanna, Summer Nicole
abstract
Electrothermal vaporization has served as an alternative sample introduction method in atomic spectroscopy for some time. Typically, electrothermal vaporizers made of graphite, but these devices do not lend well to mass production, are expensive, and require large power supplies for operation. In addition to these structural and operational limitations, they encounter significant matrix interferences when using samples that contain carbide-forming species or have high salinity or organic concentrations.
subject
Atomic Emission Spectrometry
Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry
Portable Instrumentation
Tungsten Coil
contributor
Jones, Bradley T (committee chair)
Calloway, Clifton P (committee member)
Bierbach, Ulrich (committee member)
Colyer, Christa L (committee member)
Hinze, Willie L (committee member)
date
2011-07-14T20:35:33Z (accessioned)
2012-07-14T08:30:17Z (available)
2011 (issued)
degree
Chemistry (discipline)
embargo
2012-07-14 (terms)
identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10339/33451 (uri)
language
en (iso)
publisher
Wake Forest University
type
Dissertation

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