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Powder Diffraction Instrumentation

A Scintag PAD-V Powder Diffractometer is used mostly for bulk material characterization, including air and moisture sensitive samples. This provides a valuable analytical tool for the identification of single and multi-component solids by comparison with known published powder patterns. It is also used to determine the homogeneity of crystalline samples from which single crystals have been used for crystal structure determination. For single component systems, data quality is also adequate for structure refinement in some cases, using Rietveld methods.