An improved soot diagnostics technique based on tomographic reconstruction of flame emission spectra has been developed for an axisymmetric laminar diffusion flame without optically-thin assumption. Emission from the flame is scanned along the horizontal lateral axis of flame at several altitudes above the burner. At each measurement position, the local line-of-sight flame emission spectra is c...

Recent innovations in ambient ionization technology for the direct analysis of various samples in their native environment facilitate the development and applications of mass spectrometry in natural science. Presented here is a novel, convenient and flame-based ambient ionization method for mass spectrometric analysis of organic compounds, termed as the ambient flame ionization (AFI) ion source...

A method for the determination of lead, cobalt, nickel, chromium, zinc and manganese in iron minerals siderite (FeCO3), hematite (Fe2O3), pyrite and marcasite (FeS2)by flame and Zeeman electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) was developed. Interferences were investigated by measuring the absorbance of the elements investigated in series of samples with varying mass ratios of the e...

We review atomic flame spectrometry of metals based on the selective laser-enhancement of the rate of atomic ionization. A discussion of basic principles, prior literature, and instrumentation is followed by an overview of analytical figures of merit for the technique, and a look at its present status and areas for future development.

Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry has five major advantages for measurements of trace metals in biological materials, in comparison to measure­ ments by conventional flame atomic absorption analysis: (1) Trace metal contami­ nation is minimized by avoidance of preliminary chemical extractions and addi­ tions of reagents; (2) Sample volumes are small (1 to 50 /*1). The entire sample ...

The following experimental protocols and the accompanying video are concerned with the flame experiments that are performed at the Chemical Dynamics Beamline of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(1-4). This video demonstrates how the complex chemical structures of laboratory-based model flames are analyzed using flame-sampling mass spectrometry with tun...

Due to importance of wheat as the most popular food, in this data article, we determined the accumulation of heavy metal levels including Cd, Co, and Cu in wheat grains in Dashtestan county, Iran. The concentration levels of heavy metals in wheat grains cultured were determined by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (FAAS).

Screening by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has been carried out on sludge extracts of wastewater treatment basins. Soxhlet extraction with trichlorotrifluoroethane was applied. The yields for petroleum hydrocarbons and PAH recovery were high, usually in excess of 90%. The proposed investigations permit a quick assessment of petroleum...

Rubidium concentrations in seawater from various locations and depths to 3,900 m have been determined using two independent techniques--direct flame photometry and mass spectrometry. Results of these two techniques agree within estimated errors and indicate that the rubidium content in the oceans is uniform within H$% with values varying about 120 pg/liter. Sediment from the sea floor below a d...