抄録
A mass spectrometer was applied for vacuum fusion analysis of micro-amounts of gases in iron and steel produced by vacuum melting and vacuum casting. The gases extracted from the metal specimen in a vacuum fusion furnace were collected directely in the gas reservoir through a mercury diffusion pump, and the individual constituents were determined by the mass spectrometer (Gas Detector, ATLAS–WERKE AG.). The limits of detection for this apparatus were 0.07 μg of oxygen, 0.1 μg of nitrogen and 0.005 μg of hydrogen. The analysis took approximately 30 minutes. From the extraction curve with vacuum fusion, it was proved to be extracted gases from iron and steel within 2 minutes.
