RE: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread Whitfield, Pamela
bject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) My limited experience with X-ray capillary measurements of ultra fine clay minerals suggests that you could have significant preferred orientation along the b* axis. It is actually a good way of determining aspect ratios in phyllosili

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread Omotoso, Oladipo
From: Whitfield, Pamela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:51 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) I have to disagree with that; at least on a practical front with lab XRD. I have done measurements myself with samples

RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread AlanCoelho
investigate it. Cheers Alan -Original Message- From: Lubomir Smrcok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2007 5:50 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Gentlemen, I've been listening for a week or so and I am really wond

RE: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread Whitfield, Pamela
e off for wollastonite though! I will shut up at this point as I trying to avoid doing clay analysis! Pam -Original Message- From: David L. Bish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 21, 2007 9:11 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread David L. Bish
One often hears of attempts to "eliminate" preferred orientation in diffraction patterns of layer silicates using transmission measurements. Keep in mind that if PO is a problem in reflection geometry, it will also affect transmission measurements, in a manner potentially similar to flat-plate

RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread AlanCoelho
leeberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2007 7:48 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Dear colleagues, sorry, my mail should go directly to Leandro, but I used this damned reply buttom... My answer was related to Leandro's quest

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread Reinhard Kleeberg
Dear colleagues, sorry, my mail should go directly to Leandro, but I used this damned reply buttom... My answer was related to Leandro's questions regarding these line broadening models. I realised that Leandro is going on to apply a Rietveld program for phase quantification, including kaolinit

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-21 Thread Joerg Bergmann
Dear Lubomir Smrock, linear pattern analysis is _not_ Rietveld, this was a common QPA method prior to Rietveld QPA. In a Rietvel QPA, one must refine the lattice parameter at least. And that makes it nonlinear. Depending on the sample, one may decide to add more nonlinear details to the refinemen

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-20 Thread Lubomir Smrcok
Gentlemen, I've been listening for a week or so and I am really wondering what do you want to get ... Actually you are setting up a "refinement", whose results will be, at least, inaccurate. I am always surprised by attempts to refine crystal structure of a disordered sheet silicate from powders, e

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-20 Thread Reinhard Kleeberg
Dear Leandro Bravo, some comments below: Leandro Bravo schrieb: In the refinement of chlorite minerals with well defined disordering (layers shifting by exactly b/3 along the three pseudohexagonal Y axis), you separate the peaks into k = 3.n (relative sharp, less intensive peak) and k  3.n

RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-18 Thread Mr. Tony Raftery
Regards, Leandro From: "AlanCoelho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: rietveld_l@ill.fr To: Subject: RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:56:33 +1100 Leandro Not sure what the purpose of your refinement is but if it's quantification then your

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-18 Thread Leandro Bravo
Mr. Kleeberg, Read the paper that you send to me, ´´RIETVELD ANALYSIS OF DISORDERED LAYER SILICATES``, and I have some questions about it. In the refinement of chlorite minerals with well defined disordering (layers shifting by exactly b/3 along the three pseudohexagonal Y axis), you separat

RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-17 Thread Leandro Bravo
= Exp(-b />D_spacing^2) Does it give reasonable values!? Regards, Leandro From: "AlanCoelho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: rietveld_l@ill.fr To: Subject: RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:56:33 +1100 Leandro Not sure what the purpose

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-16 Thread Reinhard Kleeberg
Dear Leandro, some comments: Leandro Bravo schrieb: I know that refining the atoms positions is ´´too much´´, exagerated. But is the only way I can make the calculated DRX pattern fit with the measured one. There must a problem in the instrument details since I´m using Fundamental Parameters (

RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-15 Thread Leandro Bravo
I know that refining the atoms positions is ´´too much´´, exagerated. But is the only way I can make the calculated DRX pattern fit with the measured one. There must a problem in the instrument details since I´m using Fundamental Parameters (FP) for peak shape, the values I put in the instrumen

RE: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-15 Thread AlanCoelho
AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Ok, I´m starting to have sucess in the kaolinite refinement, the quantification is giving me reasonable values. I´m refining the thermal factors, all the atoms positions in the kaolinite, the lattice parameters an

RE: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-15 Thread Omotoso, Oladipo
PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Ok, I´m starting to have sucess in the kaolinite refinement, the quantification is giving me reasonable values. I´m refining the thermal factors, all the atoms positions in the kaolinite, the lattice parameters

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-15 Thread Leandro Bravo
Ok, I´m starting to have sucess in the kaolinite refinement, the quantification is giving me reasonable values. I´m refining the thermal factors, all the atoms positions in the kaolinite, the lattice parameters and the cystallite size. Lattice parameters and crystallite size are giving me very

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-14 Thread Reinhard Kleeberg
Thanks Alan, our first trial was: Bergmann, J., Kleeberg, R. (1998) Rietveld analysis of disordered layer silicates. Mat. Sci. Forum, 278-281 (1): 300-305. Application to kaolinite at: http://www.bgmn.de/kaolin.html and for more disordered stuff: http://www.bgmn.de/smectite.html Far from beeing

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-13 Thread Lubomir Smrcok
Or, to see how bad the results from Rietveld refinements of kaolintes are try review paper in Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie 210(3) 177-183, 1997 lubo smrcok On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Alan Hewat wrote: > Reinhard Kleeberg said: > > There are not so much trials published to find a > > working solu

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Hewat
Reinhard Kleeberg said: > There are not so much trials published to find a > working solution for practical Rietveld quantification of clays. One > would be a self-citation of a paper, so I can't do this here in the list. A good one is :-) Pitfalls in Rietveld Phase Quantification of Complex Samp

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-13 Thread Reinhard Kleeberg
´unecessary data`` affect the quantification?!?! From: "Leandro Bravo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: rietveld_l@ill.fr To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:35:54 -0300 I think that I just did a good job in my quan

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Hewat
Leandro Bravo said: > I don´t think that the kaolinite CIF that I´m using is working well, I´m > refining the temperature factors and it´s giving me non realistic numbers. > Can somebody send me a trustable kaolinite CIF, with good temperature > factors?! You will find a dozen papers on the struct

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-13 Thread Leandro Bravo
ietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:35:54 -0300 I think that I just did a good job in my quantification: 50,2% calcite and 49,8% dolomite. Now I´m moving foward to a sinthetic mixture of calcite, dolomite and kaolinite. I have other

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-12 Thread Leandro Bravo
@ill.fr" Subject: Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:39:41 -0600 Leandro : here is an example of calcite I used. You can use min and max to confine the parameters. One way to know whether it is right is to mix a known fraction of a compound, e.g. Zn

Re: Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-12 Thread jilin_zhang_Houston
Leandro : here is an example of calcite I used. You can use min and max to confine the parameters. One way to know whether it is right is to mix a known fraction of a compound, e.g. ZnO with a ratio of original sample/ZnO=100/15. At the end of the refinement, you have N components with N corr

Problems using TOPAS R (Rietveld refinement)

2007-03-12 Thread Leandro Bravo
Hi, guys, I´m having some trouble using the Bruker software TOPAS R, right now I´m quantifying a sinthetic sample with 50% of calcite and 50% of dolomite. Check the following questions an help me if you can. 1) I´m using the CIF files from ICSD, but when I put it in the software it gives me