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Automatic Data Acquisition and Reduction for Elemental Analysis of Aerosol Samples*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

J. F. Harrison  and
R. A. Eldred
J. F. Harrison
Affiliation:
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California, Davis
R. A. Eldred
Affiliation:
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California, Davis
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Abstract

A PDF 15/40 computer wich ADC and CAMAC interfaces is used to control data collection apparatus, acquire data, and reduce data to determine the elemental composition of aerosol samples. The background is subtracted from each energy spectrum, peak centers are located automatically using a Gaussian correlation technique, peak multiplets are resolved with Gaussian fits, peak energies are compared with entries in a table of x-ray lines for possible identification, multiple identification of peaks and line interferences are resolved, and the elemental amounts are determined from the areas of the Gaussian fits.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 17: Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 22-24, 1973 , 1973 , pp. 560 - 570
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1973

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Work supported by the National Science Foundation/RANN and the California Air Resources Board.

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