Environmental Applications
There are numerous regulations in place that limit the amount of toxic compounds and metals that can be released into the atmosphere. XRF lends itself to many important analytical applications in...
View ArticleCosmetic Applications
During the manufacturing process, cosmetics need to be chemically analyzed to ensure conformance to product specification and safety as well as cost-effective manufacture. The cosmetic market lends...
View ArticleCoatings & Thin Film Applications
Proper quality control of coating thickness is important to the plating companies and metal finishers that are applying the coatings and also affect the companies that utilize the plated components in...
View ArticleChemical Applications
The chemical and petrochemical market offers a diverse array of applications. While many processes involve organics that are not readily measured by XRF, there are many instances where salts or metals...
View ArticleArt & Antiques Applications
Museum curators, art historians, and archeologists must be constantly alert to forgeries. XRF is a great tool for them since it can identify the specific elemental composition of rare and valuable...
View ArticleLiquids
Sample Preparation of Liquids Liquid samples can be the easiest or most difficult samples to work with depending on the composition and stability. A sample cup is filled about ¾ full and then...
View ArticleDevelopment
Four types of spectrometers are available to the analyst. From the 1950’s to 1960’s nearly all the x-ray spectrometers were wavelength dispersive spectrometers. In a wavelength dispersive spectrometer,...
View ArticleLoose Powders
Sample Preparation of Loose Powders The simplest approach to analyzing a loose powder sample is to simply fill a sample cup approximately ¾ full and analyze it without any additional preparation, or...
View ArticleIntroduction
X-rays were first discovered by Wilhelm K. Roentgen (German physicist, 1845-1923) who won the Nobel Prize in 1901, for the discovery of x-rays. X-rays have been used for commercial elemental analysis...
View ArticleSolids
Sample Preparation of Plastics Plastic samples present some special challenges since they come in numerous forms, powders, pellets, fibers, sheets, and variously shaped solids, and cannot be prepared...
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