[en] The surface contamination of a graphite rail limiter recently removed from the PDX tokamak has been characterized using ion-beam, electron-beam and x-ray analyses. The major impurities detected were Ti and Fe, with the Ti present in the form of a carbide. The distribution of these elements indicate that the erosion and deposition processes balance at a distance one cm from the apex of this limiter (the point of contact with the plasma) for Ti and at about two cm for Fe. The importance of TiC formation on the conditioning process is discussed