Contributions to the Post CSl-Symposium of the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXIV

This report comprises a collection of all but one of the contributions made bythe participants in the Post CSI Symposium. In the first part of this Symposium,KFA staff presented a survey of analysis and special spectroscopic investigationsbeing carried out in the KFA. Several participants prepared presentationsconcerning their own spectroscopy activities.The contributions dealt partly with the development and advances in differentspectroscopic techniques used in recent years in the iron and steel industryand in the investigations of graphitic, ceramic and geological materials. Ofparticular interest are the ICP methods and trace element analysis. In someof the presentations, various spectroscopic methods for analysis were appliedand compared. One contribution dealt specifically with the preparations ofspecimens of matertals that are difficult to dissolve. High temperature massspectrometry was of special interest. The services offered by the ChemicalAnalysis Department (ZCH) of the KFA were presented; a variety of spectroscopictechniques for chemical analysis of materials was outlined in this contribution