Field-portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry: Past, present, and future

Field Analytical Chemistry and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 317-329

  Piorek, Stanislaw ^a  

^a Metorex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental applications of XRF; Field portable methods; X ray spectrometry; XRF in positive materials identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010733701     PISSN: 1086900X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6521(199712)1:6<317::AID-FACT2>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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