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Mineralogical Identification on Polluted Soils Using XRD Method

N. Oumabady Alias Cannane, mnoumabady@yahoo.fr
Department of Physics, Bharathiyar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikal,India. M. Rajendran, mnoumabady@yahoo.fr
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Technology Coimbatore, TN, India. R. Selvaraju mnoumabady@yahoo.fr
Department of Engineering Physics, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, India.

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Abstract

Soil samples were collected from an industrial area at Karaikal, South India. Mineralogical identification was carried out on the soil samples using powder X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) method. The XRD results indicated the presence of various minerals, namely quartz, kaolinite, hematite, aragonite, illite and calcite. XRD Method isnon-destructiveand canbe usedinthe identification ofmineralogical composition. Results were discussed and it was arrived that the method is relatively quicker andmore reliablein mineralanalysis.

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