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What is a graphite furnace atomiser?

  • A.A heated chamber through which the sample is nebulised
  • B.An electrically heated tube holding the whole sample
  • C.A flame burning within a graphite enclosure
  • D.A plasma sustained between two graphite electrodes

Answer: B

A small graphite tube is heated electrically in stages, drying, ashing and then atomising a few microlitres of sample placed directly inside it. There is no flame and no plasma, and nothing is nebulised. Holding the entire sample in the light path for a second or more, rather than sweeping most of it away as a flame does, is what gives the technique its far greater sensitivity.

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