Fast-response system for signal acquisition and processing in electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry |
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Authors: | Edwin Allen Kenneth W. Jackson |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask. S7N 0W0 Canada |
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Abstract: | An electrothermal atomic absorption (a.a.) spectrometer is modified to allow accurate correlation of absorbance and pyrometrically measured temperature with time. To by-pass the slow electronics of the spectrometer, the signal is fed from the preamplifier immediately after the photomultipier tube to a 12-bit A/D converter mounted in a 320K IBM-PC microcomputer. The wall temperature of the graphite furnace, measured with an automatic optical pyrometer, is recorded simultaneously with absorbance by feeding the pyrometer output to a second channel of the A/D board. Fast deuterium-arac background correction is also done. Background-corrected absorbance, background absorbance and temperature are recorded at 60 Hz. A simple algorithm allowed experimental activation energies to be calculated automatically. All programming was in BASIC or PASCAL. |
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