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XRF1058 - Dolomite Limestone Powdermethod - Supermini200
XRF1058 - Dolomite Limestone Powdermethod - Supermini200
XRF1058 - Dolomite Limestone Powdermethod - Supermini200
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XRF 1058
44.0
SiO2 Al2O3
Measurement and Calibration 2
10.0
33.0
Intensity (a.u.)
Intensity (a.u.)
Measurements were performed on the Supermini200
for SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, SO3, Na2O, K2O, 22.0
15.0
TiO2, P2O5 and MnO. Measurement conditions are
shown in Table 1. 11.0
Intensity (a.u.)
Intensity (a.u.)
Primary Filter OUT OUT OUT OUT 2
Slit Std Std Std Std
2
Crystal PET PET LiF(200) PET
Detector PC PC SC PC 1
1
Time Peak (s) 20 20 40 10
BG (s) 10x2 10x2 20 4x2 Accuracy (mass%) Accuracy (mass%)
0 0.028
0 0.0 20.0 40.0
0.2
60.0
0.00
0.0 0.05
0.05
0.10
0.10
0 20 40 60
Element Mg S Na K Std. value (mass%) Std. value (mass%)
Line Kα Kα Kα Kα
2 MgO SO3
kV-mA 50-4.00 50-4.00 50-4.00 50-4.00
Intensity (a.u.)
Intensity (a.u.)
20
Slit Std Std Std Std
Crystal RX25 PET RX25 PET 1
Detector PC PC PC PC 10
Intensity (a.u.)
2
Slit Std Std Std
Crystal LiF(200) PET PET 2
Detector SC PC PC 1
1
Time Peak (s) 40 40 200
BG (s) 10x2 10x2 100x2 Accuracy (mass%) Accuracy (mass%)
0 0.0 0.013 0 0.002
0.5 1.0 0.00 0.10 0.20
0.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 0.1 0.2
The calibration curves were generated using dolomite Std. value (mass%) Std. value (mass%)
Intensity (a.u.)
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y National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) standards SRM1c and 88b 3
1
y Geological Survey of Japan, AIST (GSJ) stan-
2
dards JDo-1 and JLs-1
y Bureau of Analysed Samples Ltd. (BAS) stan- 0
Accuracy (mass%)
0.0036
1 Accuracy (mass%)
0.0016
calculated theoretically by the fundamental parameter 0.000 0.005 0.010 0.015 0.020
Std. value (mass%)
(FP) method. The calibration curves are shown in Fig-
ure 1 and the calibration results are listed in Table 2.
Figure 1 Calibration curves for dolomite and limestone
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Table 2 Calibration results (unit : mass%) Repeatability tests for dolomite and limestone were
Component Calibration range Accuracy
carried out and the results are shown in Table 3 and 4.
SiO2 0.12 - 6.84 0.18
The standard deviations for both major and minor
Al2O3 0.0174 - 1.3 0.038
components are very small.
Fe2O3 0.0178 - 0.55 0.028
CaO 29.95 - 55.4 0.2
Conclusions
MgO 0.15 - 21.29 0.42
The results show that high precision analysis of ele-
SO3 0.0397 - 4.622 0.12
Na2O 0.00194 - 1.068 0.013
ments in dolomite and limestone can be performed
K2O 0.00232 - 0.28 0.002
using the benchtop WDXRF spectrometer Super-
TiO2 0.00133 - 0.07 0.0036 mini200. The calibration curves obtained using the
P2O5 0.0044 - 0.04 0.0016 theoretical alpha corrections show good linearity by
MnO 0.00209 - 0.081 0.0019 pressed powder method for both major and trace
components.
The accuracy of the linear calibration curves are cal- Supermini200 is a benchtop spectrometer with a small
culated by the following formula: footprint and is able to be operated with only a wall
power outlet. Since Supermini200 is not site-specific, it
Analysis Results
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