Do You Really Know What You Are Looking At - "True" or "False" Signals in Laser-Enhanced Ionization Spectrometry

Abstract

"Things are not always what they seem to be" - is a phrase which particularly concerns spectroscopists. This is nicely illustrated by the present paper which discusses and exemplifies a situation which, for more than a decade, has passed virtually unnoticed within the community of spectroscopists which are working with ionization techniques in flames, especially the Laser-Enhanced Ionization technique, (LEI), namely the influence of scattered laser light.