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Comparison of crystals for oxygen analysis
Author(s) -
Barrus D. M.,
Blake R. L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.1300100112
Subject(s) - analytical chemistry (journal) , oxygen , dispersion (optics) , thallium , rubidium , reflection (computer programming) , chemistry , reflectivity , materials science , optics , physics , inorganic chemistry , chromatography , organic chemistry , potassium , computer science , programming language
A comparison is made between five acid phthalates and clinochlore as analyzer crystals for oxygen Kα emission. Thallium acid phthalate (TAP) is shown to be superior for quantitative analysis because it has high reflectivity, relatively smaller corrections to reflectivity for anomalous dispersion, relatively low high order reflectivities and relatively low fluorescence background. The interplanar 2 d spacing for TAP is 25.7626 ± 0.001 Å and its coefficent of thermal expansion α is 32.7 ± 1 K −1 . At the oxygen Kα position its effective 2 d spacing is 25.724 Å and the mean reflection coefficient is 2.8 × 10 −4 rad. For analysis of chemical state, where higher resolution is often desired to distinguish band shapes and satellites, rubidium acid phthalate (RAP) is the best choice. It has α = 37.0±3 K −1 , an effective 2 d spacing of 26.083 Å and a mean reflection coefficient of 8.2 × 10 −5 rad.