Dear Alexey,
      Thank you for your insightful suggestions and very useful information. Now that I have got the XAFSmass program running (?) it is giving me some values and no more error. So I am assuming that I am doing everything right. However, I still have some questions regarding the READING and UNDERSTANDING of the data input and output from the program. From the manual, it is not very clear and difficult to understand some of the input values. In the unknown concentration tab
1) u = high u?? meaning highest absorption? 
2) DELTA ud is = to deltaU i.e. typically what we get as edge step in Athena??
3) deltaut = uncertainty? 
For the novice learner like me could you please tell me how exactly can we calculate these values from the single spectra (preferably). I am aware of the crude ways to find it but would like to more proper and scientific way. 
By the Way, in order to establish these values, should we use the crude data file or properly processed data file e.g. K-weight corrected, background adjusted, aligned and calibrated data?
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you very much in advance for the details.
Sincerely yours
Pushkar 

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Alexey Boubnov <alexeyboubnov@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Pushkar,

1) M%x is the mass percentage.
2) This function is for calculating the element concentration from the absorption spectrum. XAFSmass does not have problems with long formulas. You wrote the formula correctly, but maybe you did not indicate also the total absorption, edge jump with uncertainty and energy?

All the best.
Alexey

2017-02-23 2:54 GMT+01:00 pushkar shejwalkar <pshejwalkar2004@gmail.com>:
Thank you, Alexey, for very useful information. Currently, I am working on XAFSmass. Technically it looks much more flexible than the software provided by SPring-8 since almost all the variables can be changed and adjusted as per the requirements. 
1) However, sample information is very tedious to put in and confusing as well. Do you happen to know what exactly does M%x (is this mass % or mole %). 
2) I am working on the tab with the determination of unknown concentration Label and I am interested in finding out the Fe concentration only. So I should write Fe%x (I assume). However, since I use organosilica's the formula is not so straightforward. My empirical formula for the catalyst is FeC580H382O152Si98N10F6S2. Do you think the program can handle such information? I wrote Fe%xC_580H_382O_152Si_98N_10F_6S_2. But it is giving an error that 'can not calculate concentration'. Am I doing something wrong?
I have already read the pdf in the software and as such it looks not so complicated but just the syntax of writing chemical formula is different and con-conventional.

Sincerely yours
Pushkar

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Alexey Boubnov <alexeyboubnov@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Pushkar,

regarding your last question: the absorption edge jump (Delta µd) is the difference in absorption before the edge and after the edge, e.g. Pt L3-edge is at 11564 eV, so Delta(µd) = µd at 11580 eV - µd at 11550 eV. The total absorption (µd) takes all atoms into account. You only need the difference. I and I0 do not contain information on the sample, so they are useless for this purpose.

Regarding your original question (calculation of the edge jump knowing the composition of your sample): there are programs available to calculate the edge jump and amount of sample from the composition and total absorption, saving you the effort with formulas and letting you focus on your sample. Try XAFSmass (https://intranet.cells.es/Beamlines/CLAESS/software/xafsmass.html).

Here you can enter the bulk composition (e.g. Fe%10SiO_2 for a silicate with 10% Fe-content), energy (e.g. slightly above Fe K-edge: 7150 eV), pellet area (e.g. 1.3 cm²), total absorption (e.g. µd = 1) and press "calculate". This gives you the mass of your sample (e.g. 12 mg [hypothetical value]) and the edge jump due to the Fe K-edge (e.g. Delta(µd) = 0.2 [hypothetical value]). The mass and edge jump are approximately proportional. Consequently if your pellet in reality contains 60 mg iron silicate (5x the calculated number), absorption values will also scale: Delta(µd) = 1.0 and µd = 5, which is a little too high. Play around with the value of µd in the program to see the effect on mass and edge jump.

I wish you successful calculations and experiments!
Alexey

2017-02-22 5:54 GMT+01:00 pushkar shejwalkar <pshejwalkar2004@gmail.com>:
Thank you, Bruce and Alexey for your kind information. 
Bruce the communication, unfortunately, is not available on our Internet connection from university to download for free. Do you think it would be possible (under the copyrights act off course) for you send a PDF copy? The communication seems really interesting and I will keep the procedure in mind (for March Dates when we have BL for us again) to make sure that we have a calibration curve. (off course XRF is more reliable and easy).
Alexey, I read the section (also some other information in that book). The book is really great. Thanks for sharing. 
I have already sat down with the pen and paper. but just want to know one thing. Is Edge Jump = Absorbance?? or we need to calculate the absorbance by actually practically finding out the I and Io? 
e.g. if edge jump = absorbance I can modify the equation I = Io^e-upd into its A form. If not I will use ion chamber gas ratio to calculate the I and Io respectively.
Which way is more correct?
Best Regards
Pushkar

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Bruce Ravel <bravel@bnl.gov> wrote:


This might help: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577514001283

Note that we measured a sequence of standards of known thickness and concentration /prior/ to the rest of the experiment, so the methodology in that paper might not be useful after the fact in the absence of that prep work.

B


On 02/20/2017 10:19 PM, pushkar shejwalkar wrote:
Dear All,
    First of all, is it possible to calculate the concentration of metal
(loading, therefore) from just the edge jump? Is there a simpler
equation like knowing the Flux values or some basic instrumental
information we can calculate the concentration term using Io and It
values of beamline (the simplest form of Beer-lambert law)? if so what
formula should we use.
I searched in the mailing list archive and have found one such archive
but it discusses how to use calculation to find out how much sample
would be needed to get the edge jump. I am rather interested in the
reverse way. I have an experimental edge jump and want to calculate (if
possible with as much accuracy as possible) the concentration of metal.
I know with only edge jump it will be difficult and XRF will be a better
and more reliable way. But for better understanding and cross checking
between different samples, I wish to do such calculations.
Can anyone guide me to the right direction and equations to do such
calculations?
Thank you all in advance
Warmest regards
Pushkar

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