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A Fusion Method for the X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Portland Cements, Clinker and Raw Materials Utilizing Cerium (IV) Oxide in Lithium Borate Fluxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Gregory S. Barger
Gregory S. Barger*
Affiliation:
Central Process Laboratory Southwestern Portland Cement Ccmpany P. O. Sox 937 Victorville, California 92 392 U.S.A.
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Abstract

This method describes the addition of cerium (IV) oxide to a lithium borate flux. CeO2 provides a non-analytic glass former to the melt production. CeO2 also acts as an interelemental buffer replacing the use of lanthanum oxide for long wavelength absorption. With cerium oxide addition, excellent results are produced, resulting in part from the elimination of recrystallization problems encountered with lanthanum oxide use. Analytical results easily meet the ASTM C-114 qualification requirements for rapid method analysis of hydraulic cements.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 29: Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 5-9, 1985 , 1985 , pp. 581 - 585
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1985

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