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A Scheme for Fully Quantitative Energy Dispersive Microprobe Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

D.G.W. Smith  and
C.M. Gold
D.G.W. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3
C.M. Gold
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3
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Abstract

A procedure and program are described for rapid, economical and simple production of fully quantitative, multi-element analyses from energy dispersive microprobe data. Methods are outlined for background shaping and scaling, comprehensive overlap correction, and adjustment for instrumental drift. Program facilities include the output of all coefficients required, built-in standard data, the option to use default standards when no working standards have been measured, and the ability to respecify standards during data processing.

Type
Mathematical Correction Procedures for X-Ray Spectrochemical Analysis
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 19: Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 6-8, 1975 , 1975 , pp. 191 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1975

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