THERMO SCIENTIFIC ARL QUANT’X X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER

The only Thermo Scientific ARL  QUANT’X  X-Ray  Fluorescence Spectrometer in Armenia is functioning at A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory. This state-of-the-art elemental analyzer is for the most challenging tasks in research, industry and the area of cultural investigations. 

The X-Ray fluorescence analyzer is used to measure the chemical and elemental composition in samples. The device provides quite precise measurement for the range of elements from sodium to uranium.,

AANL has acquired the device in the competition. A group of physicists, chemists, historians and geologists have applied to the President of the RA to purchase this device. As a result, Science Committee of Armenia announced a tender and the Division of Applied Physics Research at AANL was declared a winner, which could most effectively operate the device. In 2015 the Laboratory purchased the analyzer from the German Thermo Fisher Scientific company at 60 million dram.

Results permitted the specialists to make important conclusions. Due to these studies we got the chemical composition of minerals and ore in Armenia, and that of archaeological artifacts, materials with isotopes and newly synthesized substances. It also provided data related to the purity and composition of metals and so on. This data is conducive for more specialized research. This analyzer is important in that it allows to study the cultural artifacts and findings without any damage and yield answers to numerous problems in Physics, Chemistry, Geology, History, Architecture, and Industry.

This cutting-edge device provides the elemental analysis of material with several minutes at high precision and without a damage to the materials. It allows to measure solids and powders in vacuum or in the air in eight different conditions which ensure the precision of the measurements.

This analyzer is extensively used in the most famous museums worldwide to reveal the elemental composition of museum pieces, the presence of rare elements in the pieces, the date and place of their creation.