High Resolution 3D Reconstructions of Rocks and Composites — Ten μm resolution 3D representations of different media, were obtained with a laboratory computer microtomograph developed from an electron microprobe column. From the original electron microprobe, only minor modifications have been required, indeed several of the utilities of the microprobe have been used to ensure high resolution ra...

Sodium fluoride was administered to rabbits through the intragastric route at the rate of 10 mg/kg every day for a period of 8 months. Cortical bone from the diphyseal region of the femur was studied morphologically with a scanning electron microscope, and significant structural changes in collagen fiber were observed in the fluoride-treated animals as compared to normal bone. Similar bone samp...

A correction procedure is proposed to correct for the effects of characteristic fluorescence in EPMA near phase boundaries. The necessary equations for the simple case of two homogeneous alloys sharing a common interface are given. The equations have been tested in practice and it is shown that they are well suited to predict the apparent concentration of the element suffering from secondary ex...

A soil profile contaminated as a result of Zn smelting operations from the historic Palmerton, PA smelting facility was characterized using X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) as bulk techniques, coupled with electron microprobe (EM), and microfocused XAFS as microscopic techniques to determine the chemical forms of Zn and elucidate its geochemical fa...

The effect of chemical composition on the Raman spectra of a series of natural calcalkaline silicate glasses has been quantified by performing electron microprobe analyses and obtaining Raman spectra on glassy filaments (~450 µm) derived from a magma mingling experiment. The results provide a robust compositionally-dependent database for the Raman spectra of natural silicate glasses along the c...