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This chapter considers the principal problems that beset a quantitative x-ray spectrochemical analysis (especially absorption-enhancement, surface-texture, particle-size, and heterogeneity effects and spectral interference) and analytical performance criteria (precision and accuracy, sensitivity, and resolution).
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Bertin, E.P. (1978). Problems and Performance Criteria. In: Introduction to X-Ray Spectrometric Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2204-5_8
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