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Reading about a new subject is good but there is nothing like doing to reinforce understanding. With this in mind, the authors of this textbook have designed a number of practical exercises that reinforce the book’s subject matter. Some of these exercises can be performed with software you have available to you—either instrument vendor software or a spreadsheet like MS Excel or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc. Other exercises require functionality which may not be present in all instrument vendor’s software. Regardless, it is much easier to explain an exercise when everyone is working with the same tools.
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Don’t worry if you don’t understand the difference between a reference and a standard spectrum. This will be explained later.
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Goldstein, J.I., Newbury, D.E., Michael, J.R., Ritchie, N.W.M., Scott, J.H.J., Joy, D.C. (2018). DTSA-II EDS Software. In: Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6676-9_17
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