Machine-translated by Google. Questions are authored in English.
Top

Discussion

Assertion (A): Assertion: Atomic absorption is less affected by flame temperature than atomic emission.

Reason (R): Reason: The ground state population is far larger than the excited state population.

Select the correct answer from the options below.

  • A.Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
  • B.Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
  • C.A is true but R is false
  • D.A is false but R is true

Answer: A

Both are true and the second is the reason: a population already close to a hundred per cent barely changes with temperature, while the tiny excited fraction that emission depends on changes by a large factor. Measuring a quantity that is already near its maximum makes a method robust against the variable that determines it, which is a design principle worth recognising well beyond this technique.

No comment is present. Be the first to comment.
Loading…

Post your comment

Please log in or register to post a comment.