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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Peak_splitting_at_high_2_theta_angle-can_anyone_help
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https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_reason_for_peak_splitting_in_XRD_Can_reitveld_refinement_be_done_for_the_same
How about higher angle peaks, the spitting also occurs? Your case looks like Kalpha1 and Kalpha2 because the intensity of the second peak
is about a half of the first one but more detailed answers you can find in mentioned links.
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A 2nd material (element B) that alloys with the 1st material (element A) in the same crystal structure (i.e. BCC to BCC) will simply shift the
peak positions. So if you look at the XRD pattern of only element A, and the (211) peak is at 74 degrees, and you look at the XRD pattern of
only element B, and the (211) peak is at 76 degrees, then the alloy of the two materials will be somewhere between the two peak positions
depending on how much of element B is present. As for the data you have shown, I think that Grzegorz is correct in his assessment that the
peak splitting of the alloyed data of such a narrow scanning range is showing K_alpha 1 and K_alpha 2. Also, the pure Mo card looks like
calculated values to me instead of actual data. Real data will have some peak broadening due to -- well lots of variables both in the material
and the measurement system, but that is a different discussion -- as well as the peak splitting as shown in the alloyed data.
So to help you identify what the alloy is, limit yourself to BCC materials that would have a (211) peak (If I identified the Mo peak
accurately, I am going off of my memory for the rules of BCC allowed Bragg conditions) slightly higher than Mo.
George
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Best regards
Pedro
I agree with the explanation of these expertise. The XRD pattern after adding an alloy, it seems FWHM decreased due to the adding an alloy
and appeared in XRD pattern as the splitting the original peak, known as the satellite peak of unknown material. This peaks should be very
much similar lattice constant of that Mo. However, the crystallinity of the original material has been decreased after adding the unknown
material, which to be noted. So that identify the elements having closer lattice constant of Mo and that should be answer to your question
(may be similar to the suggested by P. Grima Gallardo). You are welcome to more queries !
The second pattern cannot contain only one reflection, so it is rather strange to present a problem like that to be solved by a student without
proper information. Again, if we assume that the 2nd pattern is only part of a corresponding full pattern based on a molybdenum alloy, every
one of the reflections would show a splitting (as commented upon earlier by others) but increasingly so by increasing angle, and the only
conclusion to be drawn is that the element addition results in a cell edge decrease (seemingly an accompanying angular increase). However,
you cannot know which elements caused this, since it is then the effect of solid solubility conserving the parent phase. The same effect
would be obtained from any element that is soluble in molybdenum that has a radius less than on the Mo (the structure of the pure solute is
irrelevant). You cannot even say whether that element is a metal or a non-metal! For instance, silicon (not at all bcc) would give that effect
as well as a whole bunch of metals. The solution to your problem to find (from XRD) what the element can be is impossible if the two
peaks are indeed a resolved alpha-1/alpha-2 contribution of the (211) reflection.
If, on the other hand, the "satellite" peaks belong to another bcc-element, the alloy is a mechanical mixture of two bcc-type phases and an
identification might succeed as Pedro Gallardo indicated.
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