Development of a rapid field testing method for metals in horizontal directional drilling residuals with XRF sensor

Abstract Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometer allows fast in-situ elemental determination without wet digestion for soils or geological materials, but the use of XRF on wet materials is not well documented. Our objective was to develop a rapid field method using pXRF to measure metals in...

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Main Authors: Hailin Zhang, João Antonangelo, Chad Penn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83584-4