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Posted 01/18/2014 6:55 pm
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But where did the aluminum go?
But where did the aluminum go?
Aluminum is a light element. It won't even register on an XRF set up to deal with alloys and if it does, the machine is getting interference with the energy peaks (the detector measures spectrum peaks) and providing erroneous values. When I have to deal with aluminum, I have to switch to software packages and X-Ray beam settings capable of dealing with lighter elements....
Of course it adds up to 100% - that is the sum of the interpreted spectrum peaks, no matter what the detector is.
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Edited by SPP-Ottawa
01/18/2014 6:59 pm
01/18/2014 6:59 pm
