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Nondispersive X-Ray Fluorescent Spectrometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

W. Barclay Jones  and
Robert A. Carpenter
W. Barclay Jones
Affiliation:
Technical Measurement Corporation Special Products Division, San Mateo, California
Robert A. Carpenter
Affiliation:
Technical Measurement Corporation Special Products Division, San Mateo, California
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Abstract

Recent advances in semiconductor particle detector resolutions along with new electronic circuitry associated with these detectors make possible their application in nondispersive elemental analysis. The use of radioactive sources for exciting the characteristic X-rays provides highly stable systems which can be used to accumulate data for prolonged periods. Due to the inherent stability of the detector and the excitation source, the only limitation in sensitivity is the ability to accumulate statistics above the background of scattered counts. Since this method of analysis is nondispersive, it has the capacity to determine many elements simultaneously. Solutions composed of mixtures of three or four elements were studied. The elements selected were bromine, rubidium, and strontium. These elements exhibit wide variations in mass absorption coefficients for the various characteristic X-rays emitted. The concentrations of the elements in solution varied from 10 ppm to 5% by weight. The relative intensities of the characteristic X-ray lines were compared with the concentration of the solutions to establish sensitivity curves and to study linearity of response as well. The interelemental interference was studied and the effect was evaluated for the particular elements under study. Means were developed for predicting and correcting for matrix effects.

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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. 214 - 229
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1967

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