High Speed X-Ray Diffraction Analysis with Asbestos (Chrysotile) Wide Range OneSight Detector

Asbestos is a material that has long been widely used as a building material due to its excellent heat and acid resistance. However, its use has gradually been banned because of widespread recognition of its adverse health effects. Due to revisions of Japan's Industrial Safety and Health Act enforcement ordinance and Ordinance on Prevention of Asbestos Hazards in 2006, the regulatory limit value for asbestos content became more stringent.
Accordingly, the current content by weight of asbestos in any product is specified to be less than 0.1 %. Here we introduce an example of high-speed quantitative analysis of the chrysotile, one kind of asbestos, using the new wide-range high-speed detector OneSight.