Rietvelders,
For a lot of small powder samples (say 10 milligrams) in Bragg-Brentano
geometry, the sample has to be spread very thin over the diffracting
surface of a slide in the diffractometer. I notice that a lot of the
textbook formulas are for "infinitely thick" samples. Is there a special
way to deal with the thin samples? It seems like the absorption part of
the formula for peak intensities (for example, for phase fractions in
multiphase mixtures) will be changed.
- Kurt Leinenweber
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Kurt Leinenweber
Dept. of Chemistry
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1604
Phone (480)-965-8853
Fax (480)-965-0474
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