Development of Standards for Electron Microprobe Analysis of Oxygen

该奖项将支持发展比较 用于元素定量分析的标准样品 氧的微量分析电子探针技术。 虽然氧是地球上最丰富的元素， 矿物和合成材料中的浓度通常 通过对电荷平衡的假设进行推断， 化学计量 直接分析氧气的能力 微量分析规模的浓度将构成 矿物学和材料科学重要分析进展。

This award will support the development of comparative standard samples for the quantitative analysis of the element oxygen with the microanalytical electron probe technique. Although oxygen is the most abundant element on earth, its concentration in minerals and synthetic materials is usually inferred by making assumptions about charge balance and stoichiometry. The capability to directly analyze oxygen concentration on a microanalytical scale will constitute an important analytical advance in mineralogy and materials science.