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Material Measurement Laboratory

Chemical Sciences Division

Infrastructure

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CSD is responsible for the production and maintenance of more than four hundred manufacturing-related reference materials, notable for the production and processing of metals, ores, cements, petroleum, and related materials. Collectively, these SRMs have served an invaluable function within the overall context of a broad range of manufacturing and construction industries for many years. Within the past three years, CSD has been involved in the production and certification of over fifty new manufacturing-related reference materials, to provide continued support to the Nation’s manufacturing infrastructure and to expand this offering in response to changes in manufacturing processes.

PROJECT AREAS

Reference Materials

Table Number

Table Title

 

full list of tables

101.1

Plain Carbon Steels (chip form)

101.1

Stainless Steels (disk form)

101.11

Specialty Steels (disk form)

101.12

Steel Making Alloys (powder form)

101.13

Cast Irons (chip form)

101.14

Cast Steels, White Cast Irons, and Ductile Irons (disk and block form)

101.2

Low Alloy Steels (chip form)

101.3

Special Low Alloys Steels (chip and pin forms)

101.4

High Alloy Steels (chip form)

101.5

Gases in Ferrous Metals (rod and disk)

101.6

Stainless Steels (chip and powder forms)

101.7

Tool Steels (chip form)

101.8

Low Alloy Steels (disk and rod forms)

101.9

High Temperature Alloys (chip and disk forms)

102.1

Aluminum Base Alloys (chip and disk form)

102.1

Lead Base Alloys (disk and powder forms)

102.12

Nickel Base Alloys (chip and disk form)

102.15

Tin Base Alloys

102.16

Titanium Base Alloys (chip and disk forms)

102.17

Zinc Base Alloys (block, chip, and disk forms)

102.18

Zirconium Base Alloys (chip form)

102.2

Cobalt Base Alloys (chip and disk forms)

102.3

Copper Base Alloys (chip, granule, and rod forms)

102.4

Copper Base Alloys (block and disk forms)

102.5

Copper Benchmark (block and disk forms)

103.2

Synthetic Glasses

103.4

Semiconductors

104.1

High Purity Metals

108.2

Metal Constituents in Fossil Fuels

108.3

Sulfur, Mercury and Chlorine in Fuels

108.4

Moisture in Oils and Alcohols

108.6

Fossil Fuel Trace elements

108.9

Biomass Feedstock

110.6

Wheat Hardness

111.2

Ores

111.4

Clays

111.5

Rock and Minerals

111.6

Refractories

111.7

Soils, Sediments, and Sludges

112.3

Glasses

113.1

Cements and Related materials

113.2

Portland Cement Clinkers

114.2

Lubricating Oils

202.1

Polymers

208.3

Viscosity of Glass

301.2

Cement and Coal Fly Ash Fineness

309.5

Bleached Kraft Pulps

309.6

Secondary Ferrite Standards

309.7

Fracture Toughness of Ceramics

108.3(1)

Crude Oil

108.3(10)

Metallurgical Coke

108.3(2)

Gasoline

108.3(3)

Middle Distillates

108.3(6)

Residual Fuel Oil

108.3(7)

Petroleum Coke

108.3(8)

Subbituminous Coal

108.3(9)

Bituminous Coal

Associated Publications

1. Sieber, J., Marlow, A., Paul, R., Barber, C., Wood, L., Yu, L., Rieke, A., Carl, R., Kutnerian, A., McCandless, J., and Wallace, C., "Quantitative analysis of zirconium alloys using borate fusion and wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry," X-Ray Spectrometry, 50, 210-223 (2021).

   2.   Rocha, W. F. D., Presser, C., Bernier, S., Nazarian, A., and Sheen, D. A., "Laser-driven calorimetry and chemometric quantification of standard reference material diesel/biodiesel fuel blends," Fuel, 281, (2020).

   3.   Jahrman, E. P., Seidler, G. T., and Sieber, J. R., "Determination of Hexavalent Chromium Fractions in Plastics Using Laboratory-Based, High-Resolution X-ray Emission Spectroscopy," Analytical Chemistry, 90, 6587-6593 (2018).

   4.   Paul, R. L., "Prompt gamma-ray activation analysis for certification of sulfur in fuel oil SRMs," Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 311, 1149-1154 (2017).

   5.   Turkoglu, D., Chen-Mayer, H., Paul, R., and Zeisler, R., "Assessment of PGAA capability for low-level measurements of H in Ti alloys," Analyst, 142, 3822-3829 (2017).

   6.   Christopher, S. J. and Vetter, T. W., "Application of Microwave-Induced Combustion and Isotope Dilution Strategies for Quantification of Sulfur in Coals via Sector-Field Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry," Analytical Chemistry, 88, 4635-4643 (2016).

   7.   Presser, C., Nazarian, A., Bruno, T. J., Murray, J. A., and Molloy, J. L., "Thermochemical Characterization of Bio- and Petro-diesel Fuels Using a Novel Laser-Heating Technique," Energy & Fuels, 29, 5761-5772 (2015).

   8.   Amais, R. S., Long, S. E., Nobrega, J. A., and Christopher, S. J., "Determination of trace sulfur in biodiesel and diesel standard reference materials by isotope dilution sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry," Analytica Chimica Acta, 806, 91-96 (2014).

   9.   Schantz, M. M., Sander, L. C., Sharpless, K. E., Wise, S. A., Yen, J. H., NguyenPho, A., and Betz, J. M., "Development of botanical and fish oil standard reference materials for fatty acids," Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 405, 4531-4538 (2013).

10.   Mann, J. L., Vocke, R. D., and Kelly, W. R., "Determination of low-level (sub-microgram) sulfur concentrations by isotope dilution multi-collector inductively couple plasma mass spectrometry using a 33S spike and internal normalization for mass bias correction," Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26, 1175-1180 (2012).

11.   Paul, R. L. and Lindstrom, R. M., "Preparation and Certification of Hydrogen in Titanium Alloy Standard Reference Materials," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A-Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 43A, 4888-4895 (2012).

12.   Rimmer, C. A., Putzbach, K., Sharpless, K. E., Sander, L. C., and Yen, J. H., "Preparation and Certification of Standard Reference Material 3278 Tocopherols in Edible Oils," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 60, 6794-6798 (2012).

13.   Molloy, J. and Sieber, J., "Assessing microscale heterogeneity in batches of reference materials using microbeam XRF," X-Ray Spectrometry, 40, 306-314 (2011).

14.   Sharpless, K. E., Thomas, J. B., Duewer, D. L., Putzbach, K., Rimmer, C. A., Sander, L. C., Schantz, M. M., Wise, S. A., Yarita, T., and Yen, J. H., "Preparation and characterization of standard reference material 3276, carrot extract in oil," Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 389, 207-217 (2007).

15.   Paul, R. L., "Determination of boron in materials by cold neutron prompt gamma-ray activation analysis," Analyst, 130, 99-103 (2005).

16.   Poster, D. L., Schantz, M. M., and Wise, S. A., "Preparation of Reference Material 8504, transformer oil," Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 110, 613-615 (2005).

17.   Sieber, J. R., Yu, L. L., Marlow, A. F., and Butler, T. A., "Uncertainty and traceability in alloy analysis by borate fusion and XRF," X-Ray Spectrometry, 34, 153-159 (2005).

18.   Duewer, D. L., Choquette, S. J., O'Neal, L., and Filliben, J. J., "Rare-earth glass reference materials for near-infrared spectrometry: sources of x-axis location variability," Analytica Chimica Acta, 490, 85-98 (2003).

19.   Kelly, W. R., Long, S. E., and Mann, J. L., "Determination of mercury in SRM crude oils and refined products by isotope dilution cold vapor ICP-MS using closed-system combustion," Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 376, 753-758 (2003).

20.   Mann, J. L., Kelly, W. R., and MacDonald, B. S., "Observations of anomalous mass-loss behavior in SRM coals and cokes on drying," Analytical Chemistry, 74, 3585-3591 (2002).

21.   Choquette, S. J., Travis, J. C., O'Neal, L. E., Zhu, C. J., and Duewer, D. L., "A rare-Earth-oxide glass for the wavelength calibration of near-infrared dispersive and fourier-transform spectrometers," Spectroscopy, 16, 14-19 (2001).

22.   Winchester, M. R., Kelly, W. R., Mann, J. L., Guthrie, W. F., MacDonald, B. S., and Turk, G. C., "An alternative method for the certification of the sulfur mass fraction in coal Standard Reference Materials," Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 370, 234-240 (2001).

23.   Chen-Mayer, H. H., Mackey, E. A., Paul, R. L., and Mildner, D. F. R., "Quantitative prompt gamma analysis using a focused cold neutron beam," Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 244, 391-397 (2000).

24.   Paul, R. L., "Measurement of phosphorus in metals by RNAA," Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 245, 11-15 (2000).

25.   Mossner, S. G. and Wise, S. A., "Determination of polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles in fossil fuel-related samples," Analytical Chemistry, 71, 58-69 (1999).

26.   Paul, R. L., "Determination of phosphorus in steels by radiochemical neutron activation analysis," Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 234, 55-58 (1998).

27.   Choquette, S. J., Chesler, S. N., Duewer, D. L., Wang, S. W., and Ohaver, T. C., "Identification and quantitation of oxygenates in gasoline ampules using Fourier transform near-infrared and Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy," Analytical Chemistry, 68, 3525-3533 (1996).

28.   Pella, P. A., Marinenko, R. B., Norris, J. A., and Marlow, A., "Apparent Bias in the X-Ray-Fluorescence Determination of Titanium in Selected Nist Srm Low-Alloy Steels," Applied Spectroscopy, 45, 242-245 (1991).

Created September 19, 2023