title: Improvement of the Smets method in electrothermal atomic-absorption spectrometry.
abstract: The smets method, which is frequently used to obtain the rate constant of atom formation in the gas phase, has been improved. The assumption of first-order kinetics for atom formation and the steady-state approximation appearing in the previous models are avoided, so the non-linearity in the Arrhenius plots can be eliminated. The reasons for this non-linearity are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Taizhou Teachers College, Linnai, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu