EMISSION SPECTRA EXCITED IN AN ALUMINUM POWDER-OXYGEN FLAME
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1962
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Ohio State University
Abstract
Aluminum in powdered form has been injected by a vibrator-operated feeder mechanism into an oxygen flow to a Bunsen-type burner. The aluminum-oxygen flame is ignited by a gas flame. The design of this burner has been improved to allow continuous operation of the flame. The emission spectra excited in this metal flame have been investigated both in the optical and the infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. From studies made with a prism spectrometer, the infrared spectrum appears to be purely continuous. The intensity of this continuous infrared emission is comparable to the emission from a carbon are. The optical spectra have revealed about 60-70 bands belonging to the $A^{2}\Sigma-X^{2}\Sigma$ transition of the Al O molecule. The usefulness of this flame as a light source for spectroscopic investigations will also be discussed.
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$^{\ast}$ Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy and Infrared Studies, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Research supported, in part, by the U. S. Army Research Office (Durham, N. C.) through a grant to The Ohio State University Research Foundation. $^{\dagger}$ Rokcet Research Laboratory. Research has been supported, in part, by the Hercules Powder Company. Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Cumberland, Md., through a contract with The Ohio State University Research Foundation.
Author Institution: The Ohio State University
Author Institution: The Ohio State University