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