Quantification of total element concentrations in soils using total X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (TXRF)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 374-388

  Towett, Erick K ^a,b   Shepherd, Keith D ^b   Cadisch, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Calibration; Rapid soil analysis; Total elements; Total X ray fluorescence spectroscopy; Validation

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIABILITY; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MULTI-ELEMENT STANDARDS; SOIL ANALYSIS; TOTAL X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIES; VALIDATION;

BISMUTH; CALIBRATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PRASEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; X RAYS; ZIRCONIUM;

NEODYMIUM;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CERIUM; COPPER; ELEMENT; GALLIUM; HAFNIUM; IRON; LANTHANUM; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NEODYMIUM; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; RUBIDIUM; SAMARIUM; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM; YTTRIUM; ZINC;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84880018117     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.05.068     Document Type: Article

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