TRANSVERSELY EXCITED ATMOSPHERIC CO₂ LASER-INDUCED PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE DETECTION OF HEAVY METALS IN SOIL

A rapid detection of heavy metals in soil was presented by the metal-assisted gas plasma method using specific characteristics of a pulsed, transversely excited atmospheric (TEA) CO₂ laser. The soil particles were placed in a hole made of acrylic plate. The sample was covered by a to prevent the soil particles from being blown off. The mesh also functioned to initiate a luminous plasma. When a TEA CO₂ laser (1500 mJ, 200 ns) was focused on the soil sample, passing through the metal mesh, some of the laser energy was used to generate the gas plasma on the mesh surface, and the remaining laser energy was employed to ablate the soil particles. The fine, ablated soil particles moved into the gas plasma region to be dissociated and excited. Using this technique, analysis can be made with reduced sample pretreatment, and therefore a rapid analysis can be performed efficiently. The results proved that the signal to noise ratio (S/N) of the emission spectral lines is much better for the case of the present method (mesh method) compared to the case of standard laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using the pellet method. Rapid detection of heavy metal elements in soil has been successfully carried out. The detection limits of Cu and Hg in soil were estimated to be 3 and 10 mg/kg, respectively. The present method has good potential for rapid and sensitive detection of heavy metals in soil samples.

обнаружение тяжелых металлов, анализ почвы, спектроскопия лазерно-индуцированной плазмы, импульсный CO₂-лазер с поперечной накачкой при атмосферном давлении, heavy metal detection, soil analysis, laser-induced plasma spectroscopy, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, TEA CO₂ laser

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