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Techniques for the Preparation of Lithium Tetraborate Fused Single and Multielement Standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Kent I. Mahan
Affiliation:
University of Southern Colorado Pueblo, Colorado
Donald E. Leyden
Affiliation:
University of Denver Denver, Colorado
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Extract

Since first introduced by Claisse, twenty-five years ago, borate fusions have been used in XRF analysis of a wide variety of materials because fusion eliminates many of the problems associated with particle size and matrix effects encountered in the analysis of powders. Geological and environmental materials such as rocks, ores, sediments, slags, air-borne particulates, etc., lend themselves nicely to lithium or sodium tetraborate or lithium metaborate fusion because the inherent presence of silica in these materials stabilizes the resultant glass from crystallization.

Type
II. XRF Methods: Practical, Mathematical
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1981

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