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A Rapid, Low Cost, Manual Fusion Sample Preparation Technique for Quantitative X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Gerald D. Bowling ,
Iris B. Ailin-Pyzik  and
David R. Jones IV
Gerald D. Bowling
Affiliation:
Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Technical Center, Granville, OH 43023
Iris B. Ailin-Pyzik
Affiliation:
Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Technical Center, Granville, OH 43023
David R. Jones IV
Affiliation:
Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Technical Center, Granville, OH 43023
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This study compares the quality of the fused samples obtained by three separate methods. The first set of samples was prepared by the method used at USGS in Denver and reported by Taggart and Whalberg (1). The second set was fused by our manual method and cast in graphite molds. The third set was fused in the Herzog HAG-12 automated fusion device.

The manual fusion technique requires the use of a muffle furnace capable of 1100°C (2100°F) and graphite molds. No release agents such as KBr and LiBr are required since the disks release easily from the graphite. The 25mm diameter center of the “fire-polished” upper surface of the disk is used for analysis without further surface preparation. This method has been shown to be suitable for preparation of a wide variety of glasses and raw materials including burned dolomite, silicates* high zircon materials such as BCS-388, calcined alumina and alumina refractories.

Type
VIII. Applications of XRF to Archeological, Geochemical and Industrial Materials
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 27: Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-5, 1983 , 1983 , pp. 491 - 496
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1983

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References

1. Taggart, J. E., Jr., and Whalberg, J. S., Mew Mold Design for Casting Fused Samples, Advances in X-Ray Analysis, Vol. 23, 257–2, (1980).Google Scholar
2. Ailin-Pyzik, I. B. and Bowling, G. D., Evaluation of Two Fusion Sample Preparation Techniques for Quantitative X-ray Fluorescence Analysis, Paper presented at the 1983 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy.Google Scholar