Agilent Technologies 5110 ICP-OES Service Manual page 27

3 General Information
System overview
• Smaller foot print requiring less bench space.
The 5110 is comprised of four major functional areas.
• Sample introduction system
• Excitation source
• Optical assembly
• Detection system
The sample introduction system generates and delivers an aerosol to the excitation source,
which causes the atoms to emit characteristic radiation.
The polychromator optical system separates the characteristic radiation emissions into
wavelengths of interest.
The radiant intensities of the selected wavelengths and orders are measured by the detection
system.
A quantitative determination is made by the comparison between the radiant intensity of a
known concentration of analyte standard and the radiant intensity of the analyte in the samples
that are analysed.
The fundamental blocks of the Agilent 5110 ICP-OES.
The major components of the 5110 include:
• Plasma generating system
• Gas control system
• Sample introduction system
• Optics system
• Power supplies
• Control electronics
• Personal computer (PC)
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