Application of photon-counting in atomic-absorption spectrophotometry.
An analysis is given of the statistics of photon-counting as a means of making measurements in atomic-absorption spectrometry. It is concluded that the simple application of Poisson counting statistics may give an over-optimistic estimate of the error, since other sources of error, such as flame flicker and variable nebulization rate, may be more significant.
Dagnall
R M
RM
Chemistry Department Imperial College of Science and Technology London, S.W. 7 U.K.
Sharp
B L
BL
West
T S
TS