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Fundamental Noise Studies In Flame Atomic Magneto-Optic Rotation And Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, Ahmet T. İnce, Richard D. Snook, Jhon B. Dawson

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A study of inherent noise sources present in a purpose built flame atomic magneto-optic rotation (AMOR) spectrometer system was carried out with a view to identifying their sources. Two different optical configurations were employed, a crossed polariser and a 45° offset polariser configuration. The offset polariser configuration was operated in both an AMOR and atomic absorption (AA) mode for the noise measurements. Two main interference frequencies were found to occur in all the optical measurement modes. An interference flame feature frequency (15.5 Hz -39.0 Hz) which arose from an ``organ-pipe'' effect in the gas flow through the flame cooling sheets. …