XRF newsletter. No. 5, January 2003

This periodical XRF Newsletter is to inform the XRF laboratories in IAEA Member States on recent developments in the field of XRF spectrometry and to exchange views on fundamental and applied aspects of sampling, sample preparation, instrumentation, quality control, etc. A few selected examples of the recent activities in the IAEA XRF Laboratory and its results in the field of XRF are presented: the evaluation of uncertainty of elemental determination using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence technique and the emission-transmission method, X-ray fluorescence applied for air pollution studies, the application of the backscatter fundamental parameter method with simultaneous excitation by 55Fe and 109Cd radioisotope sources, the XRF Laboratories Database and the training at the IAEA Laboratories at Seibersdorf