Author Topic: Sharing is Caring: Pathfinder/NSS Match Database Mineral Spectra  (Read 90 times)

SteveSeddio

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I have a university customer asking if anyone has and is willing to share their Match Database spectra, specifically if it has many mineral spectra in it.
Bonus points will be awarded if there are heavy minerals included.

Thanks!
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Re: Sharing is Caring: Pathfinder/NSS Match Database Mineral Spectra
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2024, 10:41:07 AM »
I have a university customer asking if anyone has and is willing to share their Match Database spectra, specifically if it has many mineral spectra in it.
Bonus points will be awarded if there are heavy minerals included.

Thanks!
-Steve

I don't remember who requested this feature to be added to our Standard application, but one can import EDS (and CL) spectra to our standard composition database as described here:

https://probesoftware.com/smf/index.php?topic=534.0

Personally I never utilized this feature, but maybe someone else has and already has all these spectra associated with specific standard materials?  So they could just send you their standard database MDB file and you could export the spectra to EMSA format as desired.

Actually, I'd go even further: if someone has these EDS spectra in their standard database, I could add an export all EDS spectra menu somewhere...
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