Table 10.
Instrument | Philips X'Pert Pro Diffractometer (Almelo, The Netherlands) working with parafocusing Bragg Brentano geometry |
X-ray tube | Long Fine Focus, Co source, 40 kV and 40 mA generator settings |
Detector | Real-Time Multiple Strip (RTMS) X'Celerator |
Sample holder | Circular, 27 mm diameter and 2 mm thick. Back-loading filling |
Accessories | Bragg-BrentanoHD ©, spinner for sample revolution on vertical axis |
Slits | Divergence slits 1/4°, antiscatter slits 1°, Soller silits 0.04 rad |
Data acquisition | 3–85° 2theta, continous scan lasting 1 h (100 s for 0.017° 2theta virtual steps). |
Micronization procedure | 5 min grinding using ethanol at 1500 rpm/min. Instrument: Retsch XRD-MILL MCCRONE. |
Dry grinding procedure | 3 min dry grinding at 20 Hz frequency. Instrument: Retsch MM 400 |
Qualitative phase analysis | HighScore (Plus) software version 4.9, year 2020, by PANalytical B.V., Almelo, The Netherlands [13] |
Quantitative phase analysis | Profex-BGMN v.5.2.3 [14] |