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<p>[QUOTE="BadThad, post: 532989, member: 17261"]I'm ready to kill my boss when he gets back! LOL He was the last one to use my SEM and he had it so jazzed....arrrggg....I didn't have time today to get all the settings corrected, busy day...but...I did toss it on for some quick-n-dirty.</p><p> </p><p>It does indeed appear to be a stain. The levels of Cu, Sn and Zn were the same in the darkened areas as the clean areas. In the darkened area, there were higher concentrations of C and O, indicating oxidized organic material. Just above the E.PLUR, I was picking up sulfur, it's the only place I found sulfur, so that area is toned.</p><p> </p><p>I wish I had time to get the picture better and the EDXRF graph corrected. The knucklehead changed the element intensities on the graph to blue so they didn't print out. I'd have to fiddle with it to get it back to white...no time...so...the height of the elements on the graph relate to intensity (concentration).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BadThad, post: 532989, member: 17261"]I'm ready to kill my boss when he gets back! LOL He was the last one to use my SEM and he had it so jazzed....arrrggg....I didn't have time today to get all the settings corrected, busy day...but...I did toss it on for some quick-n-dirty. It does indeed appear to be a stain. The levels of Cu, Sn and Zn were the same in the darkened areas as the clean areas. In the darkened area, there were higher concentrations of C and O, indicating oxidized organic material. Just above the E.PLUR, I was picking up sulfur, it's the only place I found sulfur, so that area is toned. I wish I had time to get the picture better and the EDXRF graph corrected. The knucklehead changed the element intensities on the graph to blue so they didn't print out. I'd have to fiddle with it to get it back to white...no time...so...the height of the elements on the graph relate to intensity (concentration).[/QUOTE]
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