Environmental Research Laboratory                                                                                                      Spring, 2015

Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University

 

XRD – XRF Analyses

 

Code	Preparations		Price
PREP-1 PREP-2	Sample Drying Rock Powdering	Freeze Drier Spex Shatterbox	$2/sample $6/sample
PREP-3	Fine Grind (post-powdering)	agate mortar & pestle	$2/sample
PREP-4	Ultrasonic Disaggregation	Branson Sonifer	$6/sample
PREP-5	Size Fraction Extraction	High-Speed Centrifugation	$8/sample
	X-Ray Diffraction
XRD-1	Powder Analysis	Randomly oriented	$110/sample
XRD-2	Oriented Clay/Film	Air dried & Ethylene Glycol	$180/sample
XRD-3	Additional Clay Treatments	Cation sat, heat, etc.	$60/scan
XRD-4	Small vol. powders (<100mg)	Capillary tube	$140/sample
XRD-5	Parallel beam analysis	(artifacts, irregular obects)	$140/sample
XRD-6	Grazing incidence analysis		$140/sample

 

XRDAT-1	XRD Data Analysis Pattern export in ASCII, EXCEL, or other format	included
XRDAT-2	d-spacing, peak, and basic phase identification	included
XRDAT-3	Semi-quantitative abundance estimates (peak area)	$20/sample
XRDAT-3	Quantitative analysis by Rietveld Refinement	$45/sample
	X-Ray Fluorescence (Na, K, Ca, Mg, Si, Al, Fe, Ti, P, Mn, Rb, Sr, Zr)
XRF-1	Lithium Tetraborate Fusion & WD-XRF Analysis	$50/sample

 

 

Chemical Analyses (Soil/Sediment/Tissue)

PREP-1 Sample Drying Freeze Drier $2/sample

PREP-2 Sample Drying Oven (1050 C) $2/sample

PREP-3 Grinding Spex Mixer-Mill $6/sample

PREP-4 Grinding Agate Mortar & Pestle $2/sample

PREP-5 Digestion (Majors/Minors/Trace) HCl/HNO3/HF/HClO4 $25/Sample

PREP-6 Digestion (Hg) LaFort aqua regia $25/Sample

ICP-AES
ICP-1 Direct Aspiration Semi-Quant1 $100/sample

ICP-2 Direct Aspiration Majors2 $75/sample

ICP-3 Direct Aspiration Trace Elements3 $75/sample

ICP-4 Direct Aspiration Majors/Trace2, 3 $125/Sample

ICP-5 Hydride Se4 $30/sample ICP-5 Hydride As, Sb5 $45/sample

AAS
AAS-1 Flame Ag/Cd/Pb6 $60/sample
AAS-2 Cold Vapor Hg7 $50/sample

Combustion
CNS-1 Muffle Furnace LOI8 $20/sample

CNS-2 Carlo-Erba TN9 $25/sample

CNS-3 Carlo-Erba TC10 $25/sample

CNS-4 Carlo-Erba TN/TC9, 10 $35/sample

CNS-5 Leco TC10 $25/sample

CNS-6 Leco (after 10% V/V HCl) TOC11 $35/sample

CNS-7 CNS-3/CNS-5 TIC12 $50/sample

Footnotes
1 – Majors (nearest %) – Traces (nearest 10 mg/kg)
2 – Al, Ca, Fe, Mg, Na (0.1%); Mn, P, S, Ti (0.01%)
3 – Ba, Ce, Cr, Co, Cu, La, Li, Ni, Sr, Sn, V, Zn (1 mg/kg); Be, Mo (0.1 mg/kg)
4 – Se (0.1 mg/kg)
5 – As, Sb (0.1 mg/kg)
6 – Ag (0.5 mg/kg); Cd (0.1 mg/kg); Pb (1 mg/kg)
7 – Hg (.01 mg/kg)
8 – LOI (0.1 %)
9 – TN (0.01%)
10 – TC (0.1%)
11 – TOC (0.1%)
12 – TIC (0.1%)

Other Analytical Procedures

SS-1 Suspended Sediment Concentration Filtration (SSC)1 $12.50/sample

SS-2 Concentration Filtration (TSS)2 $12.50/sample

SS-3 Sand/Silt (63-µm) Sieve/Filtration3 $25/sample

SS-4 Separation Centrifugation4 $50/sample

Surface Area
SA-1 Flowing Gas Single Point BET5 $25/sample

Heavy Mineral Separation
HM-1 Bromoform Centrifugation6 $25/sample

Grain Size Analyses
GS-1 Ro-Tap Sieving7 $75/sample

Footnotes
1 – 1 mg/L
2 – 1 mg/L
3 – >63-µm (%); <63-µm (%)
4 – Concentration (mg/L)
5 – 0.1 m2/g
6 – Heavy (>2.96 g/L; %); Light (<2.96 g/L; %)
7 – 2000, 1000, 500, 250, 125, 63-µm (%)