@article {Sneddon:1990:0003-7028:1562, author = "Sneddon, Joseph", title = "Electrostatic Precipitation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry", journal = "Applied Spectroscopy", volume = "44", number = "9", year = "1990", abstract = "The theory and principles, design, construction, and preliminary evaluation of a system based on the electrostatic precipitation of metals in aerosols on a tungsten collecting electrode, followed by injection of this rod into an electrothermal atomizer for atomic absorption spectrometric determination of the metal, is described. With the use of a manganese aerosol generated by an electrothermal vaporizer, the highest atomic absorption signals—and therefore the optimum charging and collecting efficiency for the geometry of the system as described—were achieved with a negative corona of 15 kV and low aerosol velocity. The system determined copper in the laboratory atmosphere on a near-real-time basis.", pages = "1562-1565", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sas/sas/1990/00000044/00000009/art00020", doi = "doi:10.1366/0003702904417931", keyword = "Electrostatic precipitation, Aerosol, Electrothermal atomizer, Atomic absorption spectrometry" }