Quantitative X-Ray Spectrometry, Second Edition,This work covers important aspects of X-ray spectrometry, from basic principles to the selection of instrument parameters and sample preparation. This edition explicates the use of combined X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction data, and features new applications in environmental studies, forensic science, archeometry and the analysis of metals and alloys, minerals and ore, ceramic materials, catalysts and trace metals.;This work is intended for spectroscopists, analytical chemists, materials scientists, experimental physicists, mineralogists, biologists, geologists and graduate-level students in these disciplines. |
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absorption coefficient absorption edge amplifier output amplifier pulse amplitude analog-to-digital converter analysis analyte line angle anode atomic number background bremsstrahlung calculated channels characteristic lines Chem chromium CMDL concentration correction courtesy of EG&G crystal deadtime losses detection limits detector diffraction distribution effect EG&G ORTEC electron emission Energy keV energy-dispersive spectrometers equation error escape peak factor Figure filter fluorescence spectrometer high counting rates incoherently scattered Instrum instrument K lines line intensity linear livetime mass absorption coefficient matrix method normal number of counts obtained parameters particle photon photon energy preamplifier probability density function problem proportional counter pulse height selector quantitative radiation range ratio Reprinted by courtesy sample sensitivity Si(Li specimen spectral standard deviation Table technique thickness trace elements tube current tube voltage variance voltage wavelength window x-ray fluorescence x-ray photon x-ray spectrometer x-ray tube Κα