Thanks Tony

When I add the absorption edge correction to the silicon nitride model (and
add beta-silicon nitride), it becomes -2.8 wt% amorphous; up a little due
to the added correction and down a little due to the extra phase.

If I change your al-SN thermals from 1 to those given in ICSD 77811, I
get +4.8 wt% amorphous. Your atoms were already neutral, so I left them
as-is.

If I make all the Si-nitride phases' thermal parameters == 0, then I can
get up to 8.5 wt% amorphous.

In all of this, corundum is staying as charged atoms, with Al and O beqs
fixed at 0.334 and 0.278.

I'll have to have a go at applying the absorption edge correction; I always
forget which parameter is which thing and have to rederive my understanding
of it everytime...


Thanks

Matthew

On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 at 13:58, iangie <ian...@126.com> wrote:

> Dear Matthew,
>
> I tried your data and get ~-1% amorphous. My .pro is in below link.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/xuw13c91l9gq5m5/ROW.pro?dl=0
>
> I normally do not refine Beq, which I believe gives biggest source of
> error in QPA...
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
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>
> At 2022-04-13 13:00:44, "Matthew Rowles" <rowle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Thanks to those that have replied off-list.
>
> I've managed to jiggle things around and get various answers. If you want
> an answer between -14 and +6 wt% amorphous, I can make it happen. I can
> either use charged atoms or not, or use thermal parameters or not.
> Combining those between the corundum and Si3N4, you get the following:
>
>
> [image: image.png]
> This is using the scattering factors defined with 11 gaussians.
>
> If you use the ones defined by 9 gaussians, you get
> [image: image.png]
>
> The structures I used are below. In the certificate for 656, the
> structures are referenced, but those structures have no thermal parameters.
> Does anyone know what was used in the NIST determination?
>
>
>
> phase_name "Aluminium_oxide_alpha_10425_icsd"
> Hexagonal( 4.759355, 12.99231)
> space_group "R -3 c H"
> site Al1 num_posns  12 x 0      y 0 z 0.14772 occ Al+3 1. beq  0.318
> site O1  num_posns  18 x 0.3064 y 0 z 0.25    occ O-2  1. beq  0.334
>
> phase_name "ALPHA_Marchand_ICSD_26191"
> Hexagonal( 7.75411, 5.62034)
> space_group "P31c" 'atom positions from Marchand. Thermals from ICSD 77811
> site Si1 num_posns  6 x 0.0806 y 0.5095 z 0.3020 occ Si+4 1   beq 0.25
> site Si2 num_posns  6 x 0.1675 y 0.2560 z 0.0070 occ Si+4 1   beq 0.29
> site N1  num_posns  2 x 0      y 0      z 0      occ N    1.  beq 0.88
> site N2  num_posns  2 x =1/3;  y =2/3;  z 0.3500 occ N    1.  beq 0.46
> site N3  num_posns  6 x 0.0390 y 0.3860 z 0.0310 occ N    1.  beq 1.06
> site N4  num_posns  6 x 0.3190 y 0.3210 z 0.2660 occ N    1.  beq 0.17
>
> phase_name "BETA_Billy_ICSD_35566"
> Hexagonal( 7.60633, 2.90778)
> space_group "P 63/m" ' structure from Billy, thermals from ICSD 170004
> site Si1 num_posns  6 x 0.2323 y 0.4096 z 0.25 occ Si+4   1  beq 0.231
> site N1  num_posns  2 x =1/3;  y =2/3;  z 0.25 occ N      1  beq 0.326
> site N2  num_posns  6 x 0.3337 y 0.0323 z 0.25 occ N      1  beq 0.314
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 at 17:13, Matthew Rowles <rowle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I've collected some more data, and am still getting spurious results, and
>> by spurious, I mean -5 wt% amorphous in SRM-alpha-656 when quantified by
>> the external method against SRM 676a.
>>
>> We had some SRM-656alpha (couldn't find any of the beta) stored in a
>> drying oven, and some SRM676a stored in a cupboard. I collected some data
>> using a D8 with Ni-filtered Cu and a lynx-eye detector (0.25° fixed
>> divergence, 250 mm radius, 2x2.5° sollers). The patterns were collected
>> consecutively (using the same program), with a single peak from SRM1976 (b,
>> I think), acting as an intensity calibrant (the intensity didn't
>> appreciably change), collected before, after, and between.
>>
>> Does anybody want to have a look at the data and see what I'm doing
>> wrong? Data available at:
>>
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rowlesmr/pdCIFplotter/changing-str-to-float-conversion/data/row_Cu_676a.xy
>>
>>
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rowlesmr/pdCIFplotter/changing-str-to-float-conversion/data/row_Cu_al656.xy
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 at 21:13, Matthew Rowles <rowle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi List People
>>>
>>> Do any of you use NIST SRM656 in your quantitative analysis quality
>>> control?
>>>
>>> I've recently started at a new lab, and am finding it impossible to make
>>> a physically realistic model (in Topas) that gives results anywhere near
>>> correct (or at least, close to the certificate values).
>>>
>>> As an example, using the external std approach with SRM676, I've managed
>>> to calculate there is -11 wt% amorphous in the beta-656 standard.
>>>
>>> I've tried using the silicon nitride structures given in the SRM
>>> certificate, but the papers and the ICSD entries don't list any thermal
>>> parameters.
>>>
>>> I can get the same results as given on the certificate using a siroquant
>>> model, but I don't know the provenance of the HKL files used in the
>>> analysis.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthew Rowles
>>>
>>
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