Single beam atomic absorption spectrometry

Figure 1.6 Configurations of instruments for atomic absorption spectrometry, (a) Single-beam spectrometer (b) double-beam spectrometer.

Instruments for atomic absorption spectrometry can generally be divided into single- and double beam designs. The sophistication and consequently the cost of the instruments span a very wide range. 

Figure 3 Principle of construction of atomic absorption spectrometers. (A) Single-beam spectrometer with electrically modulated lamp radiation (B) double-beam spectrometer with reflection and splitting of the primary radiation by a rotating, partially mirrored quartz disk (chopper). 1 - radiation source, 2 -sample cell (atomizer), 3 - monochromator, 4 - detector, 5 -electronics and readout (by permission of Wiley-VCH from Welz B and Sperling M (1999) Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, 3rd, completely revised edition. Weinheim Wiley-VCH).

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