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Compton scattered Mo Ka excitation radiation, corrected for matrix absorption, serves as an internal standard for the direct determination of trace elements in light element matrices.Analyses of ~.5 g samples, prepared as thin uniform specimens, give results accurate to within ±10%, when x-ray counting statistics are not the limiting factor.
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Giauque et al. (1979) studied this question.
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