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Milling effects upon quantitative determinations of chrysotile asbestos by the reference intensity ratio method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

L. De Stefano ,
F. De Luca ,
G. Buccolieri  and
P. Plescia
L. De Stefano
Affiliation:
Area Ambiente - ENEL Ricerca, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
F. De Luca
Affiliation:
Area Ambiente - ENEL Ricerca, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy
G. Buccolieri
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Lecce, Dip. Scienza dei Materiali, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
P. Plescia
Affiliation:
Instituto Trattamento Minerali, CNR- I-00160 Roma, Italy
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Abstract

As is well known from literature, the grinding process, which is an unavoidable step in sample preparation, may strongly modify the physical properties of chrysotile through amorphisation. The aim of this work is to establish the proper milling time to apply to the samples before an accurate X-ray powder diffraction quantitative analysis. We have used the RIR (reference intensity ratio) analytical method, based on the measurement of the ratio I/Is between the intensity of the strongest line of an analyte and the intensity of the analytical peak of a standard material, when they are thoroughly mixed 50:50 by weight. We have studied how the RIR value changes as a function of the milling time of the sample and how the accuracy of this quantitative method is affected.

Keywords

asbestoschrysotileRIRquantitative analysis
Type
Technical Articles
Information
Powder Diffraction , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 26 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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