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Evaluation of Quantitative Electron Microprobe Analyses of Multiphase Microcrystalline Refractory Materials*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

David H. Speidel
David H. Speidel*
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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Abstract

An appropriate test for homogeneity of composition of standards and of unknown samples is an analysis of variance of the intensity ratios of the components within the grains opposed to the variance between the grains under conditions of constant beam current capacitor change. Replication of analyses is necessary to distinguish inherent instrumental variation from actual chemical inhomogeneities present in the samples. This replication permits an estimate of the imprecision caused by in homogeneities and the statistical variation of X-ray quanta. The total uncertainty of an analysis is the sum of systematic error—primarily reference standard uncertainty—and the imprecision. For multiphase mixtures of microcrystalline refractory oxide material, an uncertainty of ±2% of the amount of oxide component present in a given phase should be considered a good analysis. This value is based on experimental work in the system MgO–FeO–Fe2O3–SiO2.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 9: Fourteenth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 25-27, 1965 , 1965 , pp. 259 - 264
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1965

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Contribution No. 64-44 from the College of Mineral Industries, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

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