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A Fast, Versatile X-ray Fluorescence Method for Measuring Tin in Impregnated Wood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Iver Drabæk  and
Leif Højslet Christensen
Iver Drabæk
Affiliation:
Danish Isotope Centre Skelbækgade 2 DK-1717 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Leif Højslet Christensen
Affiliation:
Isotope Division Risø National Laboratory DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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Abstract

The present paper describes an energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence method for measuring tin in bis(tri-n-butyl)tin-oxide impregnated wood. The proposed method is of the backscatter/fundamental parameter type. Its versatility, precision, and accuracy is demonstrated by analyses of eleven samples of sapwood of Baltic Redwood. The results obtained are compared with those from neutron activation analysis.

Type
V. Applications of XRF and XRD to Life Sciences and the Environment
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 28: Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1984 , 1984 , pp. 155 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1984

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