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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Xray Sci Technol. 2018;26(1):1–28. doi: 10.3233/XST-16210

Table. 1.

XRF data for regularly utilized fluorescent targets [33, 53, 6366].

Fluorescent target Cu Zn Ge Br Rb Zr Nb Mo Pd Ag Cd In
Atomic number (Z) 29 30 32 35 37 40 41 42 46 47 48 49
K-edge (keV) 9.0 9.7 11.1 13.5 15.2 18.0 19.0 20.0 24.4 25.5 26.7 27.9
Kα (keV) 8.0 8.6 9.9 11.9 13.4 15.8 16.6 17.5 21.1 22.1 23.1 24.1
Kβ (keV) 8.9 9.6 11.0 13.3 15.0 17.7 18.6 19.6 23.8 24.9 26.1 27.3

Fluorescent target Sn I Ba Ce Gd Tb Ho Hf W Au Pb U

Atomic number (Z) 50 53 56 58 64 65 67 72 74 79 82 92
K-edge (keV) 29.2 33.2 37.4 40.4 50.2 52.0 55.6 65.4 69.5 80.7 88.0 116
Kα (keV) 25.1 28.5 32.0 34.5 42.7 44.1 47.1 55.2 58.7 67.9 73.9 96.5
Kβ (keV) 28.5 32.3 36.4 39.3 48.7 50.3 53.8 63.1 67.1 77.8 84.7 111