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Sample Preparation Introduction
Specimen preparation is crucial to the relationship between spectral line intensity and the element concentration. Factors such as surface roughness, particle shape, particle size, homogeneity, particle distribution, and mineralization can affect this relationship.
The key to selecting the appropriate sample preparation technique are reproducibility, accuracy, simplicity, cost, and time required for sample preparation.
Literature should always be consulted to see if someone else has encountered the situation and posed a solution.
The link below contains a diagram for x-ray fluorescence sample preparation.
Sample Preparation Diagram
