“…The development of a methodological basis of measurements, a consideration of thermodynamic and kinetic factors, which affect the selectivity and sensitivity of the detection and minimisation of test experiments substantially improve the metrological characteristics of thermal lens procedures for the detection of various compounds. 228, 229, 232, 274, 276, 283, 382, 391 ± 406 These procedures were used for determining molybdenum 27 and copper 401 in sea water, cobalt, 90 nickel 91,93 and iron 92,93 in highly pure water, bismuth 28 and cobalt 90,93 in highly pure metals and nickel in nickel-containing heteropoly compounds, which are used as active compounds in chemical sensor elements for the detection of ammonia in the atmosphere. 407 The use of thermal lens spectrometry allows one to reduce the number of stages of analysis of heteropoly compounds and increase the accuracy of the determination of nickel.…”