Rapid quality assessment of isogams using laser plasma spectroscopy

摘要： In this paper, the quality assessment of isogams is demonstrated by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) using the comparative standardization method. Here, the mass concentrations of carbon and hydrogen, as basic elements of tar, relative to that of calcium, as an undesired element, are taken into account as principal parameters to determine the quality of isogams. Hence, the intensity ratios of H?? line of hydrogen (656.28?nm), the (0, 0) band of CN (388.34?nm), and the (0, 0) band of C2 (516.52?nm) to the line intensity of once-ionized calcium (317.93?nm) are considered as determinant markers for five different pre-known isogam brands. Qualitatively, classification of the isogams based on this approach is in full agreement with that obtained from the results of Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. In FTIR spectra, two stronger transitions of 2849?cm?1 and 2917?cm?1 related to the symmetric and asymmetric stretching vibrations of C–H play the principal role in the analysis of samples. Furthermore, the results obtained from energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis quantitatively confirm the LIBS outcomes. And finally, to reveal the differences between isogams from various aspects, the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is exploited as a statistical approach.