X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Metals and Minerals Analysis

Abstract

During the last more than two decades, applications and uses of X-ray Emission Spectroscopy have multiplied many times. As because of the facts that the chemical methods require several hours and optical emission technique do not normally yield results of high absolute precision at high concentrations; the technique of X-ray fluorescence has, therefore, gained general acceptance. It has furn-ished the analyst a tool, which is capable of performing chemical analysis rapidly and non-destructively. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy is more or less the X-ray emission spectroscopy.