Chrominfo: Advantages and Disadvantages of Flame Photometer

The flame photometer is an instrument used to detect sodium, calcium, potassium, and lithium ions; it depends on the intensity of emitted light.
The advantages of flame photometer:

This is a rapid, suitable, selective and responsive analysis.

It’s a simple and economical method of analysis.

Used in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of metal ions.

The elements that are rarely analyzed in this method can be determined.

Very low concentrations of metal ions can also be determined from the sample.

The disadvantages of flame photometer:

Despite several advantages, there are some disadvantages to this analysis technique, let’s check it.

The only liquid sample can be analyzed through this technique.
In some cases, sample preparation is longer.
This method does not give information regarding the molecular structure of the metal ion, which is present in the sample.
Each and every metal atom cannot determine by flame photometry.
The concentration of the metal ion cannot be accurately measured by this technique.