The basic question how useful chemical analysis can be for quantitative
phase analysis of rocks is simply the ratio between the number of phases
and the number of main elements contained, i.e. the complexity of the
system. If you have rocks containing a big number of minerals maybe
having
There are many ways how elemental analysis (e.g. by XRF) can be used
to guide the XRD phase quantification.
This becomes especially relevant when using 2 in 1 equipment like Thermo ARL
9000
Workstation. The XRD-XRF combination is often used (by various ways) in
cement industry - you may search
Hi. I think XRF can help only in case of simple samples or, e.g., to
disclude some strange elements, by proving there's none of them in the
particular sample. But when you have, lets say, a mixture containing a
spinel and periclase (MgO), then you won't be able to confirm by XRF
itself that all
