Author： Rai S.
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0946-2171
Source： Applied Physics B, Vol.91, Iss.3-4, 2008-06, pp. : 645-650
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Abstract
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is applied to characterize the organic compounds 4-nitroaniline and 4-nitrotoluene by measuring the intensity of atomic lines. The hypothesis of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) is verified by comparing the measured value of electron density in the laser-induced plasma with its lower limit, for which LTE holds good. The present study infers that the O/N intensity ratio is a unique parameter to discriminate each nitro-compound from the explosives.
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