[NewCandle] los artifactos

[Robin van Spaandonk]

In reply to  Nick Reiter's message of Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:46:35 -0700 (PDT):
Hi,
[snip]
>I'll not dwell on the long version, but in essence,
>even a bona fide Ag signal (from looking at 200A of Ag
>deposited on Al foil) loses the "second" 3.151keV line
>in the grass when the magnitude drops low enough...


Surely this just means that a real, but weak, silver signal is indistinguishable
from a double Al signal? How does that then mean that you *don't* have a weak
silver signal?

>down to around 3 to 4% from the EDAX semi-quant.  You
>really can only differentiate the double Al from a low
>level but real Ag signal, by looking at a high purity
>standard (I used a 99.999 Al evaporation slug)
[snip]
Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk <rvanspaa at bigpond.net.au>