[Ifeffit] Fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Mengling Yi Stuckman
Dear Ifeffit Community, I am currently working on project Evaluating Speciation of Thallium in Coal Fly Ash. The project was accepted by APS and we will conduct our measurement on beamline 5-BM-D. My fly ash sample has Tl concentration ranging from 0.5ppm to 13ppm. How can I know whether the

[Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Mengling Yi Stuckman
Dear Ifeffit Community, I am currently working on project Evaluating Speciation of Thallium in Coal Fly Ash. The project was accepted by APS and we will conduct our measurement on beamline 5-BM-D. My fly ash sample has Tl concentration ranging from 0.5ppm to 13ppm. How can I know whether the

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Matt Newville
Dear Mengling, The basic issues are: will there be enough Tl fluorescence counts in the detector, and will you be able to see a decent edge.From you spreadsheet of concentrations, the elements that stand out are: Fe and to a lesser extent Zn, and Pb. The Fe and Zn will dominate the

Re: [Ifeffit] Fit with Artemis in Demeter

2011-09-29 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:26:08 am Kleper Rocha wrote: I am trying to use the Artemis in Demeter to fit a spectra of Pt foil (data treated in Athena follow in attachement). Hi Kleper, That's not Pt foil data. You got that data from the examples/recipes/Histogram/ folder in the

Re: [Ifeffit] Fit with Artemis in Demeter

2011-09-29 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:26:08 am Kleper Rocha wrote: Hi for all, I am trying to use the Artemis in Demeter to fit a spectra of Pt foil (data treated in Athena follow in attachement). I am utilizing the first shell coordination and, exactly as demonstrated in Bruce's videos, I put

Re: [Ifeffit] Fit with Artemis in Demeter

2011-09-29 Thread Kleper Rocha
Bruce,I did what you requested and now I'm able to make the adjustment in the way I had reported.However, there has appearing a message in a window, I am sending in attachment.From what I understand from your first email, you were thinking that the data that I was using is from example, but, in

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Dr. Dariusz A. Zając
Dear Matt, this is very good introduction for fluorescence measurements on diluted samples... Like a tutorial... I just want to add small comments: as I understood the sample is an ash, so maybe will be possible to condense it, e.g. press it into the pellet. If there will be no possible to

Re: [Ifeffit] Fit with Artemis in Demeter

2011-09-29 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 01:16:23 pm Kleper Rocha wrote: I did what you requested and now I'm able to make the adjustment in the way I had reported. However, there has appearing a message in a window, I am sending in attachment. Sorry. I don't know how I missed that. I just pushed

Re: [Ifeffit] ATOMS for PC?

2011-09-29 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 05:25:49 pm Matthew Marcus wrote: Is ATOMS available as an executable program anymore? I can't seem to find a download for it on the IFEFFIT site. Is the idea to only use the web version? I stopped supporting a stand-alone version of atoms for a while,

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Mengling Yi Stuckman
Thanks for all the response! They are all very helpful! Just want to make sure that I get the information right and a few follow-up questions: 1. I'd better contact the beamline engineer to ask for the sensitivity for Tl. 2. Fe fluorescence interference could be decreased by adding a few layer

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with diluted Tl

2011-09-29 Thread Mengling Yi Stuckman
Thank you so much! This is the first time I tried to use ifeffit mailing list. I would have never expected so many responses from so many scientists. I wish one day I could be able to contribute back to this great scientific community as well! Thanks again! Mengling On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:00

Re: [Ifeffit] Preparation help with fly ash sample with

2011-09-29 Thread fred.mosselmans
Dear Mengling, As Caroline Peacock from Leeds has successfully done Tl L3 microXAFS on some samples on I18 at diamond, I Have a little experience. She has a paper on the work currently in review. As Matt says if you have Pb in the sample your data is limited to just under 350 eV (10 k). Micro