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FPXRF, EDXRF and ICP Comparison of Pb Contaminated Soils From Leadville, Colorado

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

C.A. Kuharic  and
W.H. Cole
C.A. Kuharic
Affiliation:
Lockheeed Environmental Systems and Technologies Company Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
W.H. Cole
Affiliation:
Lockheeed Environmental Systems and Technologies Company Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Abstract

Field portable x-ray fluorescence (FPXRF) has been used as a tool in the environmental industry to characterize metals contaminated soils for about 10 years. Initially, due to the level of sophistication of the equipment (ambient temperature detectors and empirical calibration spectral processing), and the complexity of soil matrices, it was generally believed that the instrumentation could only produce semiquantitative data. As the level of instrument sophistication increased (cooled solid-state detectors and Fundamental Parameters), that perception of FPXRF changed. However, not all users have access to the latest, state-of-the-art instrumentation. Work performed at Leadville, Colorado provides an example of how properly used older instrumentation can produce data of good quality (Kuharic, et al., 1993).

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IX. XRS Mathematical Methods, Trace Analysis and Other Applications
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 38: Forty-third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis , 1994 , pp. 725 - 729
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1994

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References

Kuharic, C.A., Cole, W.H., Singh, A.K., and Gonzales, D., 1993. An X-Ray Fluorescence Survey of Lead Contaminated Residential Soils in Leadville, Colorado - A Case Study, EPA/600/R-93/073. Washington, D.C. Google Scholar