Dear all,
thank you for all the hints concerning such a "simple" topic. I tried it now with some UHU (glue) in ethyl acetate, which I put onto the surface on the conventionally backloaded sample. This I did just before Jim Cline mentioned the importance of the surface tension of a fluid. Thus ether may have worked better to get the liquid really inside the powder. But I hope it nevertheless works and that the sample will not fall down during the weekend measurement. Maximum 1theta = tilting of the sample 60�.
Have a nice weekend
Andreas
Brian H. Toby wrote:
So in the end when someone is selling you a spinning attachment for a Bragg-Brentano instrument because it help reducing texture effects, it is a lie
The main reason to spin a sample is to improve particle counting statistics, so that the intensities are not dominated by a small number of crystallites. This may not be needed when powders are finely ground and are not too highly absorbing, but it never hurts. Spinning can also simplify texture treatment, by reducing the potential anisotropy from three axes to two.
Brian
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