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Products and Services

Products 

• Xplot for Windows
  Windows based program for the manipulation of digital step or continuous scan XRD data. 

• PC-1710 for Windows
  PC-1710 for Windows is an IBM PC based system for the control of a Philips PW1710 microprocessor controlled X-ray diffraction instrument. 

• PC-1800 for Windows
  PC-1800 for Windows is an IBM PC based system for the control of a Philips PW1800 microprocessor controlled X-ray diffraction instrument.

Services

• Qualitative phase analysis
  XRD analysis of geological, chemical or industrial samples with identification of phases and semi-quantitative estimates of their abundance based on the relative height of peaks in the diffraction pattern. 

• Quantitative phase analysis Accurate quantitative analysis of materials using crystallographic techniques. 

• Clay mineralogy of whole sample
  Clay fraction (<2µm) extraction and semi-quantitative clay mineralogy. 

• Clay mineralogy of <2µm fraction
  Semi-quantitative clay mineralogy on supplied <2µm fraction. 

• Detailed clay characterisation
  Purification of clay mineral by separating ultra fine fraction, determination of structural formula by combined XRD and XRF elemental analysis.