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Not all elements are detectable by flame photometry. When using a flame photometer to detect the concentration of an element, this...
Are sodium and hydrogen suitable elements for flame photometry?
The basics on reflection and refraction When light travels through an object, it can be affected by the properties of that medium in...
Properties of light – The basics of reflection and refraction
Photometry is a technique of measuring light in terms of its perceived brightness to the human eye. In chemistry, it is commonly used in...
Using Inductively Coupled Plasmas to detect the concentration of ions in solution
A flame photometer is a scientific instrument which is based on flame testing. But how is it used in the real world for testing and...
What is a flame photometer used for detecting in the real world?
Lithium is a chemical element with the symbol Li. A soft, silvery-white alkali metal, it is actually the lightest-known metal on Earth,...
What is Lithium, where is it found and why it's important?
Flame photography is the process of measuring the intensity of light emitted when the element is exposed to a flame, using a wavelength...
What makes an element suitable for detection by Flame Photometry?
Are they the same thing? It can be easy to confuse energy levels and electronic orbitals. Understanding what actually occurs to an...
Electronic orbitals and energy levels: Are they the same thing?
The origins and history of the scientific method. We do not learn by accident – for generations scientists, mathematicians and thinkers...
The origins and history of the scientific method
Calcium is one of the most abundant minerals on earth – it’s the most common mineral in the human body and has a host of industrial uses....
Calcium: What do we use it for and where is it found?
Analysis in chemistry often boils down to two key methods – Qualitative and Quantitative. Both have their pros, cons and different uses...
The difference between Qualitative and Quantitative analysis in chemistry
Barium, like all the other alkaline earth metals, is soft and silvery (however forms a very dark grey colour upon oxidation unlike most...
Why do we analyse Barium?
When running a Flame Photometer you want to ensure that not only are you achieving the most accurate possible results but also the most...
Cost per sample - BWB Tech
Here at BWB Technologies we are delighted to have been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification, an internationally recognised standard that...
ISO 90 01- BWB Technologies
The Big Breakthrough Into Spectrometry. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born in 1819 as the son of a book publisher. He was mostly...
Léon Foucault and His Contribution To The Study of Light
How an astronomer discovered the link from the stars to the properties light itself. William Herschel was born in Hanover, part of the...
William Herschel and His Influence On The History of The Flame Photometer
How flame temperature affects your samples. We have written about the mechanism of photon emission from Ions in a previous segment,...
Flame Photometry and Temperature
From 1500 to modern day, a brief history of the flame photometer In our previous blog posts we introduced the concept of how the...
