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Limiting Factors for Diffraction in the Gandolfi X-Ray Camera: A Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Ronald K. Corbett
Ronald K. Corbett
Affiliation:
AMAX Research & Development Center, 5950 McIntyre Street, Golden, Colorado 80403, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Occasional gaps in diffraction arcs are to be expected on “powder films” obtained with the Gandolfi X-ray camera, particularly when the specimen is a single crystal of low symmetry. The geometrical limitations of the method were succinctly and elegantly stated by the worker whose name the camera bears, in work published a quarter of a century ago. Gandolfi also stated a meansibr amelioration of the missing reflections “problem” Numerous authors have made reference to such discrepancies in the intervening period. These minor difficulties notwithstanding, the Gandolfi camera remains a powerful tool for materials analysis.

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Research Article
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Powder Diffraction , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 160 - 161
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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