A Brief Historical Perspective of Atomic Spectroscopy

Characteristic colours of fumes (flames), as described by Agricola in 1550, were used to control the process of smelting of ores. Talbot (1826) and Wheatstone (1835) reported that the colours of flame and spark induced 

Since the introduction of commercial atomic absorption spectrometry instruments in the early 1960s, this technique has rapidly gained wide 

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