Practical considerations for the field application of miniaturized portable raman instrumentation for the identification of minerals

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 767-778

  Vítek, Petr ^a   Jehlička, Jan ^a   Edwards, Howell G M ^b,c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Evaporites; In situ analysis; Mars; Miniaturized portable raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EVAPORITES; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTAL PARAMETERS; MARS; NONDESTRUCTIVE IDENTIFICATION; PORTABLE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN INSTRUMENTATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC;

CARBONATES; CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; MINERALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

MINERAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GEOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; MINERALS; MINIATURIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84880544330     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: 19433530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/12-06774     Document Type: Article

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