Originally Posted by
roundhead
Or prove his two points are 100% correct, and effectively send all the OCT slurpers who infest this place home.
You don't know what XEDS stands for nor do you understand how it works. How much SEM experience do you have Roundhead? I am going to bet 0 hours. If you knew what this method is capable of then you would know that you cannot determine
compounds only the presence of
elements. If you'd bother to read my posts you'd have seen that I mention this atleast 3 times and another poster with SEM experience confirms this. You have to use the semi-quantitative EDS/EDX/XEDS software in order to get a rough read out of what compounds (not elements it's difficult I know) are present.
This is why you use a different technique. For example
XRD would be good in this instance or
FTIR for organic compounds.
It's blatantly obvious that you don't know the difference so click on the links and learn something new today.
The guy you quote also doesn't know the difference.