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Powder Diffraction Data Correction: Single-Crystal Standards and Fourier Asymmetric Component Stripping
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
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The need for reliable standards for the characterization of x-ray powder diffraction (XRD) instruments has been well documented. As a result of the round robin study, of various candidate standard materials, described by Fawcett et al., the National Institute of Science and Technology has made the SRM-660, lanthanum hexaboride, XRD peak width standard available. It has been normal practice to use powder sample standards for XRD powder diffraction studies. Powder standards have been justified on the principle that standards should be as much as possible like the unknowns to be analyzed; however, standards must be quite different from the unknowns because their peak profiles must be as narrow as possible for deconvolution from sample peak profiles. It would seem most advantageous to use standards of the highest degree of crystallinity so that they would be useful over the maximum number of applications. Single crystals, with their extremely high crystallinity, offer that advantage.
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