Micro-sxrf on Interplanetary and Cometary Dust Particles: Technical Considerations for Trace Element Analysis
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CONSIDERATIONS FOR TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS. H. A. Ishii, K. Luening, S. Brennan, P. Pianetta, K. Ignatyev, G. Matrajt and J. P. Bradley, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA ([email protected]), Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA 94025, USA ([email protected]), Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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