Pungor Ernő: Flame photometry theory (Budapest, 1967)

E. Pungor FLAME PHOTOMETRY THEORY This advanced treatment meets the needs of senior undergraduate and postgraduate chemists and physicists requiring a simple readable account of the nature of flames and the ancillary phenom­ena used in flame photometry. At present, more than 76 elements can be determined by this method. Professor Pungor has presented a large amount of information which is usually difficult to obtain. He has tried to demonstrate the theo­retical basis of the techniques of flame photometry and to explain to the chemist the reasons for the apparent anomalies in flame pho­tometric behaviour. He deals at greatest length with the nature and structure of flames, and gives a readable dis­cussion of the radical and other equilibria in flames. From this he goes on to give an account of the factors which affect flame emis­sion spectroscopy, and discusses the characteristics of various types of flame commonly used. A particularly useful — and unusual — chapter is devoted to the in­troduction of the sample into flame, and the theory of atomiza­tion. The final chapter sum­marizes the work and shows its application to flame photometry. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest

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