X-RAYEMISSIONWAVELENGTHSANDKEVTABLESFORNONDIFFRACTIVEANALYSISPreparedbyG.G.Johnson,Jr.,andE.W.WhiteASTMDataSeriesDS46Price$5.00AMERICANSOCIETYFORTESTINGANDMATERIALS1916RaceStreet,Philadelphia,Pa.19103©byAmericanSocietyforTestingandMaterials1970LibraryofCongressNo.71-121001ISBN0-8031-2006-0NOTETheSocietyisnotresponsible,asabody,forstatementsandopinionsadvancedinthispublication.PrintedinU.S.A.April1970CONTENTSPageForewordVTableICompilationofEachElementbyIn-creasingAtomicNumber1TableIIX-rayLinesOrderedbyIncreasingWavelength20PeriodicTable40RelatedASTMPublicationX-rayEmissionandAbsorptionWavelengthsandTwo-ThetaTablesDS37A(1970),$54.00FOREWORDRecentlydeveloped,high-resolutionX-raydetectorssuchaslithium-driftedsiliconandgermaniumhaveresultedinwidespreadapplicationofnondiffractive(alsocallednondispersive)analysisasanalternativeorcomplementarytechniquetoX-rayemissionspectrography(X-rayfluo-rescenceanalysis).Thistablehasbeenpreparedforuseinnondiffractiveanalyses.AlltheX-rayemissionlinesshorterthan50A*havebeentabulatedintwobasicarrangements.Thefirstsectionofthetableisacompilationofeachlineforeachelementarrangedonthebasisofin-creasingatomicnumberandincreasingwavelength(decreasingenergy)forthelinesofeachelement.ThesecondsectionofthetablelistsalltheX-raylinesorderedonthebasisofincreasingwavelength(decreasingenergy)regardlessofelement.Alllinesshorterthan50A*thatwereusedinthepreparationofthesecondeditionofX-rayEmissionandAbsorptionWavelengthsandTwo-ThetaTables,ASTMDS37A,byE.W.WhiteandG.G.Johnson,Jr.,havebeenincludedinthistable[1,2].'Someoftheveryweaklinesmaynotbeobservedinnondiffractivespectra,butmostofthelinesshouldberesolvedinfavorablecases.DESCRIPTIONOFTABLEThetableisdividedintotwomajorsectionsseparatedbyaperiodicchartshowingthemajorlinesofeachelement.Thefirstsectionpresentsalllinesofwavelengthshorterthan50A*.Datainthissectionarelistedonthebasisofatomicnumber(Z=6-98)withdecreasingwave-length\foreachelement.Thesecondsectiongivesallthelinesshowninthefirstpartarrangedonthebasi...
