You are in charge of purchasing a new diffractometer for your company. The business of the company is the manufacture of

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You are in charge of purchasing a new diffractometer for your company. The business
of the company is the manufacture of alumina (Al 2 O 3 ). The powder diffractometer will be the
workhorse in department quality control.
routine experiments
will include the collection of powder diffraction data from ceramic samples to analyze
its structure and composition of the phases. A high speed in data collection is
critical because a typical number of samples to analyze is 100 or more. The following
Options are available from different vendors:
-Sealed X-ray Cu tube, scintillation detector; lowest cost
-Sealed X-ray Cu tube, solid state detector; $10,000 more than the
first option.
-Sealed X-ray Cu tube, curved position sensitive detector; $25,000
more than the first option.
What recommendations are you going to make to your boss without the fear of being fired during the
first month after delivery of the instrument?