Re: Amorphous content

2007-11-16 Thread Reinhard Kleeberg
We have positive experience with commercial ZnO pigments or chemicals, heated to 700°C for about 2 hours in air for recrystallisation of the amorphous ZnO or the spurious Zn carbonates/hydrates to get nearly 100% crystalline ZnO. In 1:1 mixtures of the best NIST corundum, we found no

Re: Sources of standard reference materials

2007-11-16 Thread Miguel Hesiquio-Garduño
Hi! You can try with ZnO, annealed at 950ºC, 72 h h, ( from works of Langford and Louêr) best wishes Miguel Hesiquio Hi All, Does anyone know an appropriate source of standard reference materials for a line profile standard, like NIST SRM 660a (LaB6) - other than NIST, as they are out of

RE: Amorphous content

2007-11-16 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
Thanks Reinhard and all for quick and comprehensive answers. It appears that we do have microabsorption effect as Rietveld content deviates from expected in accordance with absorption coefficients and there is no simple fix for that but take proper precautions in sample preparation and select

RE: Sources of standard reference materials

2007-11-16 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
Ross, The link to The Gem Dugout X-ray Diffraction Products is http://www.thegemdugout.com/products.html. The provide several reference specimens for affordable price, e.g. LaB6 - $10/g. And other diffraction products. Peter Dr. Peter Y. Zavalij Director, X-ray Crystallographic Laboratory

Re: Sources of standard reference materials

2007-11-16 Thread Jim Cline
Hi all, We expect to have SRMs 640d 660b available by no later then November 2008. SRM 676a will available in a ~month. I regret the difficulty that is being caused by this lapse; we are taking measures to prevent them from recurring. Regards, Jim At 09:50 PM 11/15/2007, you wrote: Hi

RE: Amorphous content

2007-11-16 Thread Leonid Solovyov
For quantitative analysis the flat-plate transmission geometry is much more preferable as it is free of the microadsorbtion problem. Of course, resolution is not so easily achievable in this geometry, but one may use synchrotron at last. Best regards, Leonid Solovyov Thanks Reinhard and all for

RE: Amorphous content

2007-11-16 Thread Martin
Flat-plate transmission? Is this a good example of an oxymoron or am I missing a trick here? Shome mishtake shurely. Martin Vickers Subject: RE: Amorphous content Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:33:49 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rietveld_l@ill.fr For quantitative analysis the

RE: High temperature PXRD fitting in TOPAS

2007-11-16 Thread Leopoldo Suescun
Dear shishir, You probably would like to take a look a the following (open access) paper published last February in Journal of Applied Crystallography: http://journals.iucr.org/j/issues/2007/01/00/issconts.html Hope this helps. Leo Dr. Leopoldo Suescun Postodoctoral Appointee Materials

Kapton capillaries

2007-11-16 Thread Omotoso, Oladipo
Could someone please suggest a source for purchasing kapton capillaries? A search on the internet drew a blank. Thanks. Dipo Omotoso

Re: Kapton capillaries

2007-11-16 Thread Brian H. Toby
Could someone please suggest a source for purchasing kapton capillaries? A search on the internet drew a blank. Try polyimide rather than kapton. We have used MicroLumen as a vendor: http://www.microlumen.com/ Brian

Re: Kapton capillaries

2007-11-16 Thread Joseph Reibenspies
We use thin-walled heat shrink PET tubing from advanced polymers. Fewer peaks in the low angle region and it comes in a colorless/ clear form. Joe Reibenspies Brian H. Toby wrote: Could someone please suggest a source for purchasing kapton capillaries? A search on the internet drew a

Re: Sources of standard reference materials

2007-11-16 Thread Luis Gallego Martinez
Dear Ross, We are working in the preparation of standard materials for XPD equipment alignment / calibration and also for obtaining instrumental breadth for line profile analysis (Rietveld, Warren-Averbach etc.). In our opinion a simple and good choice is high purity ytria (Y2O3) treated

RE: Kapton capillaries

2007-11-16 Thread Omotoso, Oladipo
Thank you for your suggestions. Dipo Omotoso From: Brian H. Toby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:04 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Kapton capillaries Could someone please suggest a source for purchasing kapton

X-ray scattering contrast Fe/Cu

2007-11-16 Thread Franz Werner
Dear Rietvelders Does anyone know whether the scattering contrast of Fe and Cu is large enough to refine their occupancies from a single X-ray powder pattern or would multiple wavelength patterns help? Thanks for your advice. Regards Franz Werner -- Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX