EDAX EDS Manual

EDAX Peak ID Quiz –“sp_pkid” Spectra
On the floppy disk provided with this notebook is a directory “sp_pkid”. This directory
contains a series of spectra “pkidXX.spc” and “deconXX.spc”. The spectra pkid01 through
pkid04 and pkid06 are the same spectra used for illustrations in the “Peak Identification”
discussion. Other spectra on the disk can be used as a peak identification quiz and they
range in difficulty from relatively easy to impossible. In the space below, identify the peak by
element and shell (e.g. SiK, PbM, SnL, etc.).
Quiz:
PkID05.spc (easy). Between 1.5 and 12 keV, the peaks are:
PkID05b.spc (easy). Between 3.7 and 7.5 keV, the peaks are:
PkID07.spc (moderately hard). Between about 0.9 and 18 keV, the peaks are:
PkID08.spc (moderate). Between 0.6 and 14 keV, the peaks are:
PkID09.spc (hard). Between 0.55 and 15 keV, the peaks are:
PkID10.spc (easy to moderate). Between 0.2 and 10 keV, the peaks are:
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