Rapid Mössbauer-Based Methods for Applications in the Coal and Steel Industries

Abstract

Conventional Mossbauer spectroscopy is not suited for routine quality- control applications in industry because of the long sample turn-around times and relatively sophisticated nature of the technique and its interpretation. Moreover, because quality-control applications tend to involve repetitive determinations of the same quantity, the full power of the technique is generally not necessary. It appears that Mossbauer spectroscopy is perhaps 1overqualified1 for industrial applications on the shop floor. As a result, simpler and more rapid Mossbauer techniques have been proposed and developed for such applications.