Zirconium Determination by ED‐XRF: a Critical Evaluation of Silicate Reference Materials as Calibration Standards
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Geostandards Newsletter
- Vol. 14 (1) , 127-136
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-908x.1990.tb00067.x
Abstract
An assessment of the difficulties in determining zirconium by various techniques indicates that X‐ray fluorescence analysis has several favourable characteristics, provided the technique can be calibrated reliably. After critical evaluation, a group of silicate reference materials was selected to calibrate energy dispersive X‐ray fluorescence instrumentation. The accuracy of the resultant calibration was verified by a standards addition procedure. New zirconium data were obtained on a wide range of reference samples and compared with values from recent compilations.Keywords
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