“…Thus, the long absorption path, achieved by passing a hydrogen-air flame through a 90 cm long Vycor or an alundum tube, yields, e.g., from 10 to 100 times greater sensitivity for zinc and cadmium than that obtained with conventional devices. Such increases in sensitivity, apparently in direct proportion to the length of the cell (7), suggested a relationship similar to that expressed by the Beer-Lambert law in molecular absorption spectrometry. However, the effect of pathlength and the limit of detection varied considerably for different elements.…”