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Simultaneous Determination of 36 Elements by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry as a Prospecting Tool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Clive E. Feather  and
Fritz C. Baumgartner
Clive E. Feather
Affiliation:
Anglo American Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 106, Crown Mines 2025, South Africa
Fritz C. Baumgartner
Affiliation:
Anglo American Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 106, Crown Mines 2025, South Africa
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In regional reconnaisance geochemical prospecting, it is desirable to determine as many elements as possible, in order to provide a comprehensive cover for the detection of most types of ore mineralization. Multi-element simultaneous instruments are ideally suited to this task, but the maximum number of wavelength dispersive channels (monochromators) which may be fitted to any one of the commercially available X-ray spectrometers is approximately thirty. Because some of these channels are required for the measurement of background, the practical limit for spectral lines is about twenty-five. Additional elements may be determined by inclusion of a scanning channel, but its sequential operation increases the analysis time per sample.

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VIII. XRF General Applications
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 26: Thirty-First Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-6, 1982 , 1982 , pp. 443 - 450
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1982

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