The Paper “Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium in Laser-
Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Beyond the McWhirter criterion.”, by G. Cristoforetti, A. De Giacomo, M. Dell’Aglio, S. Legnaioli, E. Tognoni, V. Palleschi, N. Omenetto was selected as the most significant article published in 2010 by Spectrochimica Acta Part B(Elsevier).@
The paper pointed out the main criteria to be fulfilled to validate the LTE assumption in a laser plasma and concluded that the mere use of the McWhirter criterion should be discontinued.
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