FOREWORD
This handbook is concerned specifically with methods applied in spectral analysis of gas mixtures. Other methods of gas analy- s i s have been described in general manuals [ 1 - 4 ] .
The work is based in part on data obtained in the Optics L a b - oratory of the Research Institute of Physics, Leningrad Univer- sity, during experimental studies designed to develop new techniques for gas mixture analysis. The experiments were conducted in collaboration with L . P. Razumovskaya and Ν. V . Chernysheva, under the supervision of Prof. S. E . Frisch, Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
The authors are greatly indebted to S. E . F r i s c h , who edited the book, and to L . S. Lomonosova for her valuable suggestions and comments offered during the reading and discussion of the manuscript. Further thanks are due to copy editor L . I. Orlova, who accomplished the laborious task of preparing the manuscript for publication.
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