Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vpsfw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T00:30:31.663Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

X-Ray Spectrographic Determination of Tantalum, Columbium, Iron, and Titanium Oxide Mixtures Using Simple Arithmetic Corrections for Inter element Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Betty J. Mitchell
Betty J. Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Electro Metallurgical Company, Niagara Falls, New York
Get access

Abstract

A method of specific arithmetic corrections for absorption and enhancement interelement effects has been developed, with particular reference to the quantitative determination of mixtures of tantalum, columbium, iron, and titanium oxides. The combined oxides of these elements are prepared chemically from liquid, powder, or metallic samples; weight percantages are determined by reference to calibration and intensity correction curves relating fluorescent intensity to concentration and sample matrix. Tantalum, columbium, iron, or titanium oxide from 0.01 to 100% concentration can be determined with a reproducibility of 1% of the amount present at the 50% concentration and 10% of the amount present at the 1 or 0, 1% level. X-ray analytical time required averages less than 10 minutes per determination. The corrections which have been established are universally applicable to combinations of these four oxides which may be obtained by chemical treatment from such materials as columbite or tantalite ores, tantalum or columbium metalSj and titanium alloys. The method of arithmetic corrections for interelement effects is general in nature and may be applied to the determination of other elements in complex matrices.

Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 1: Sixth Annual Conference on Industrial Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-9, 1957 , 1957 , pp. 253 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1957

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Literature Cited

1. Campbell, W. J., Carl, H. F., Anal. Chem. 28 960 (1956).Google Scholar
2. Brissey, Ruben M., Anal. Chem. 24, 1034(1952).Google Scholar
3. Campbell, W. J., Carl, H. F., Anal. Chem, 26, 800(1954).Google Scholar
4. Birks, L. S., and Brooks, E. J., Anal. Chem. 22, 1017(1950).Google Scholar
5. Mortimore, D. M., Romans, P. A., and Tews, J. L., Applied Spectroscopy 8, 24 (1954).Google Scholar
6. Adler, I., and Axelrod, J. M., Spectrochemica Acta 7, 91 (1955).Google Scholar
7. Davis, E. N., and Hoeck, B. C., Anal. Chem. 27, 1880 (1955).Google Scholar
8. Carl, H. F., and Campbell, W. J., ASTM Special Technical Publication No, 157, 63(1954).Google Scholar
9. Sherman, J., ASTM Special Technical Publication No. 157 27 (1954).Google Scholar