When conducting an analysis by flame AAS you need to optimise certain instrumental parameters for each analyte. What can you do to optimise the flame conditions in general?
use of air acetylene flame instead of nitrous oxide acetylene flame
Aspirate all the solutions in the shortest paractical time and aspirate water in between samples to avoid air aspiration.
flame draughts are caused by insufficient mixing of gases which introduces noise, in order to prevent this noise one have to ensure flame draught sheilds are properly installed in laboratory from disturbing flame.
For highly accurate measurements, before the instruments are used for analysis hollow cathode lamp should be allowed to warm up for 5min.
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