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A Comparison of Trace Metal Determination in Contaminated Soils by XRF And ICAP Spectroscopies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Douglas S. Kendall ,
Joe H. Lowry ,
Edward L. Bour  and
Timothy J. Meszaros
Douglas S. Kendall
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Agency, National Enforcement Investigations Center, P.O. Box 25227, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
Joe H. Lowry
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Agency, National Enforcement Investigations Center, P.O. Box 25227, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
Edward L. Bour
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Agency, National Enforcement Investigations Center, P.O. Box 25227, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
Timothy J. Meszaros
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Agency, National Enforcement Investigations Center, P.O. Box 25227, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
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The National Enforcement Investigations Center of the EPA provides support services for the enforcement activities of the Agency. Recently, we have analyzed hazardous wastes as part of efforts to enforce the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Superfund Act. Sample preparation for inorganic elemental analysis is a difficult and time-consuming step. Thus, it would be desirable to be able to use x-ray fluorescence methods which require relatively little sample preparation for the analysis of solid hazardous wastes. A major problem to be overcome is the need to calibrate for a large variety of samples. However, a compensating factor is that the error will be largely determined by the sampling error and the measurement accuracy is not quite so critical.

Type
VIII. Applications of XRF to Archeological, Geochemical and Industrial Materials
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 27: Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-5, 1983 , 1983 , pp. 467 - 473
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1983

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