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. 2020 Oct;26(5):857-866.
doi: 10.1017/S1431927620013495.

An Improved Electron Microprobe Method for the Analysis of Halogens in Natural Silicate Glasses

Stamatis Flemetakis  1 , Jasper Berndt  1 , Stephan Klemme  1 , Felix Genske  1 , Anita Cadoux  2 , Marion Louvel  1 , Arno Rohrbach  1
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An Improved Electron Microprobe Method for the Analysis of Halogens in Natural Silicate Glasses

Stamatis Flemetakis et al. Microsc Microanal. 2020 Oct.

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Abstract

We present a new analytical method, which allows the simultaneous analysis of fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I) in geological samples. To account for interferences of Fe on the spectral lines of F, of Al on Br-lines, and of Ca on I-lines, we prepared four new halogen-free calibration glasses. The new method is used to analyze various glass reference materials and crystal-hosted melt inclusions from the Azores. Our results show that our new method allows reliable and reproducible analyses of all four halogens in silicate glasses.

Keywords: bromine; electron probe microanalysis; fluorine; halogens; iodine.

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