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Rare-Earth Analyses by X-Ray-Excited Optical Fluorescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

W. E. Burke  and
D. L. Wood
W. E. Burke
Affiliation:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Murray Hill, New Jersey
D. L. Wood
Affiliation:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Murray Hill, New Jersey
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Abstract

X-ray excitation causes rare-earth impurities in yttrium oxide and gadolinium oxide to emit intense and highly characteristic optical line fluorescence, which enables their analyses at low concentrations. The limits of detection for praseodymium, ncodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium. holmium, erbium, thulium, and ytterbium in these two oxides range from 1 to 100 parts per billion (ppb). In other rare-earth oxides which have been investigated. the fluorescent intensities arc greatly reduced. Successful analyses can be made only by dilution in high-purity Y2O3. This dilution raises the detection limits for rare earths in these other oxides to the part per million range. X-rays from the chromium target of a cual-target X-ray tube are about two times more efficient in exciting rareeaith optical fluorescence than are the tungsten-target X-rays, even though the total energy output of the chromium target is only about one-third that of the tungsten target. With either target material, the rare-earth intensities vary linearly with the X-ray tube current, but a plot of intensity versus the square of the accelerating potential is not linear; it drops off at higher voltages.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 11: Sixteenth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 9-11, 1967 , 1967 , pp. 204 - 213
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1967

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