Plasma bubbles detect elements

In the nineteenth century, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff nebulized solutions in flames, dispersed the emitted light with a prism, and used the intensities of lines in the resulting atomic spectra to determine the concentrations of elements in the solutes2. Today, plasma atomic spectrometry is u...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 455; no. 7217; pp. 1185 - 1186
Main Author Broekaert, José A. C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group 30.10.2008
Subjects
Analytical chemistry
Bubbles
Discharge
Industrial wastes
Plasma
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Summary:In the nineteenth century, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff nebulized solutions in flames, dispersed the emitted light with a prism, and used the intensities of lines in the resulting atomic spectra to determine the concentrations of elements in the solutes2. Today, plasma atomic spectrometry is used to analyse samples from such diverse origins as water, soil and plants, and several sampling devices allow the analysis of not only solutions, but also solid samples.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/4551185a