Milli-PIXE determination of trace elements in osmium-rich platinum-group minerals from the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 556-561

  Merkle, R K W ^a   Franklyn, C B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NECSA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COPPER; IRON; MICROANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OSMIUM ALLOYS; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VAN DE GRAAFF ACCELERATORS;

MILLI PROTON INDUCED X RAY EMISSION (PIXE); OSMIUM IRIDIUM RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS (PGM);

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0033313550     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(99)00499-1     Document Type: Article

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