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Estimation of systematic errors at the fluxing stage of fire assay

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It was shown that the steps of flux calculation and mixing of sample portion with the flux can be sources of systematic error in fire assay. Errors of analysis due to these operations are evaluated.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Shvetsov, V.V. Pakhomova, N.V. Adel’shina, N.B. Kosheleva, V.V. Kravchenko, 2006, published in Zhurnal Analiticheskoi Khimii, 2006, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 118–119.

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Shvetsov, V.A., Pakhomova, V.V., Adel’shina, N.V. et al. Estimation of systematic errors at the fluxing stage of fire assay. J Anal Chem 61, 108–109 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106193480602002X

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