Hi Mike, If he plots in d then neither of the components will have the right d-spacing when he uses the average - but you're right that its standard procedure.
- Kurt ********* Kurt Leinenweber Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1604 phone (480)-965-8853 fax (480)-965-2747 *********** -----Original Message----- From: Michael Glazer [mailto:m.glaz...@physics.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 9:49 AM To: Kurt Leinenweber; Franz Werner; rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Comparison of powder patterns recorded at different wavelengths Kurt The standard method is to use a wavelength made from the weighted (2:1) average of the two components. So for CuKa the standard value is 1.5418 angstroms Mike Glazer -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Leinenweber [mailto:ku...@asu.edu] Sent: 15 January 2010 16:46 To: Franz Werner; rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Comparison of powder patterns recorded at different wavelengths HI Franz, It seems to me that the best thing would be to use K alpha 1 wavelength (which is 66 percent of the total intensity) and then mentally ignore the K alpha 2 contribution. The other option is to strip the original data of K alpha 2, if your diffractometer's software has that option, but since stripping is a kind of data manipulation, I don't usually like doing it. - Kurt ********* Kurt Leinenweber Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1604 phone (480)-965-8853 fax (480)-965-2747 *********** -----Original Message----- From: Franz Werner [mailto:franzwer...@gmx.at] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 6:27 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Comparison of powder patterns recorded at different wavelengths Hello Rietvelders I want to compare graphically powder patterns of a phase which were recorded at different wavelengths. Therefore I'd like to overlay the patterns using d-values, calculated from their corresponding 2theta values. In the case of monochromatic X-rays it's trivial. But which wavelength should one use in the case of Kalpha1-Kalpha2 radiation (lab instrument)? Thanks for your help. Regards Franz Werner Tallinn University of Technology Estonia -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01