Debye-Scherrer or Powder Method

4 Methods and Uses of X-Ray Diffraction 6.4.1 Debye-Scherrer or Powder Method 

XRD pattern for MgF taken with CuK-a radiation. (Photograph courtesy of M. Banish, University of Alabama, 

When equipped with a hot stage, the powder method is abo useful for observing solid-state phase changes or peritectic reactions in which a solid reacts with a liquid to form a new solid. 

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