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Variation in Intensity Ratios Used to Identify Asbestos Fibers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

John C. Russ
John C. Russ*
Affiliation:
EDAX Laboratories P.O. Box 135, Prairie View, IL 60069
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Identification of asbestos fibers and other small particulate matter observed in TEM and STEM is often based in whole or part on the ratios of elemental intensities. The underlying principle in this method is the linear relationship between concentration ratio and intensity ratio, which has been proposed by many authors, some of whom measure the proportionality factors and others calculate them from quasi-theoretical relationships.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 22: Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-4, 1978 , 1978 , pp. 369 - 374
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1978

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