Dear Matt,
According to the beamline scientist, it was a Mn metal foil (bcc shown at the
supplier's website).
Best regards,
Yang
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Newville [mailto:newville@cars.uchicago.edu]
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2022 1:34 PM
To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] structure for reference Mn foil
Hi Yang,
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 1:29 PM Hu, Yang (HIU) mailto:yang.hu@kit.edu > wrote:
Dear IFEFFIT members,
I have been trying to obtain the S02 value from metal reference foils
measured at the beamline.
How was your sample Mn metal prepared? Do you have verification that it is
metallic?
When you say "from metal reference foils measured at the beamline.", I wonder
if that might be the same kind of
"reference foil set" in the wooden jewelry box that we have at our beamline.
Most of these are very good, while some (Pb) degrade over time. Ours has one
labeled "Mn" which is obviously a black powder, probably sintered. I've never
tried to analyze that as BCC Mn and assumed it was stable-ish, but not
metallic. But maybe someone else has tried that.
--Matt
