Abstract: The sample output from a spectrophotometer is accumulated for a predetermined number of clock pulses and then compared with an accumulation of the reference output of the spectrophotometer and predetermined antenuations thereof for measured numbers of clock pulses to produce digitalized transmittance or absorbance ratios.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 1974
Date of Patent:
November 30, 1976
Assignee:
Pye of Cambridge Ltd.
Inventors:
Adrian Francis Flynn, Paul Goring Houghton
Abstract: In a spectrophotometry system, apparatus for modulating radiation in fixed phase relationship with an oscillatory electric signal, comprising a radiation interrupting member connected to an armature torsionally mounted in a magnetic field generated from said oscillatory signal.
Abstract: A furnace for heating a sample of a substance to produce free atoms for atomic spectroscopy wherein an unequal temperature distribution is created in a sample holding element and a protective gas flows through the sample holding element in the direction of increasing temperature to reduce the tendency of free atoms to condense on surfaces of the sample holding element.