Albite SXES spectrum, 5 keV e<sup>-</sup> beam, CSIRO 2016

Albite SXES spectrum, 5 keV e^- beam, CSIRO 2016

Description	SXES spectrum of Albite
Reference	CSIRO SXES database by C. M. MacRae, N. C. Wilson, and A. Torpy, CSIRO Mineral Resources https://spectroscopy.csiro.au/sxes
Date measured	2016-09-26
Material	Albite [ NaAlSi₃O₈ ] Albite specimen from Crete, Greece. Scale at bottom of image is one inch with a rule at one cm. © Photo by Rock Currier (via Wikimedia Commons), CC-BY 3.0
Specimen	NaAlSi3O8 Hyper2-10 Albite [CSIRO - Microbeam Lab standard blocks] BSE image of Albite [NaAlSi3O8] in 'NaAlSi3O8 Hyper2-10 Albite' standard (CSIRO). Instrument: JEOL JSM-IT800. © (C) 2024 CSIRO Mineral Resources. All Rights reserved.
Related specimen	P-0077 Albite [CSIRO - Microbeam Lab P-mounts]. Inclusions of K feldspar
Technique	Soft x-ray emission spectroscopy (SXES)
Instrument	JEOL 8530F
Probe	5 keV electron beam
Beam current	99.9 nA
Grating	50XL
Acquisition time	640 s
Channel count	2048
Energy range	46.8109 … 170.472 eV
Intensity range	140.411 … 8400.46 counts
Integral	1.1200×10⁶ counts

Nominal composition of Albite [ NaAlSi₃O₈ ].
Element	Atoms	At%	Wt%
Na	1	7.69	8.77
Al	1	7.69	10.3
Si	3	23.1	32.1
O	8	61.5	48.8

SXES spectrum of Albite