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Perform precious metal testing with certainty
With daily changes in the prices of precious metals, small inaccuracies in testing can significantly impact your bottom line. Gold plating and counterfeit items are just some of the challenges that jewelers, gold traders, numismatists, and pawn shop owners face daily. Businesses require accurate results to remove variability and subjectivity from determining item value to ensure a profitable transaction.
Our handheld, benchtop, and lab equipment, which utilize nondestructive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology, will help you ensure accurate determination of the content of gold and all precious metals such as silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, and ruthenium. In addition, you can analyze any alloying elements such as copper, zinc, nickel, etc., or even toxic elements such as cadmium, lead, etc.
Be sure of the value of the precious metals you buy and sell with a fast, simple nondestructive solution for analysis of gold and other precious metals.
Know the value before you buy or sell
Gain trust from your customer
Thermo Scientific Niton XRF precious metal analyzers provide retailers, pawn shops, cash-for-gold businesses, jewelers, recyclers, and refineries with fast, reliable and accurate results. Designed specifically for countertop and handheld use in retail environments, our portable precious metal analyzers can be used for gold testing and metal analysis of jewelry, coins, and other valuable products, with just the push of a button -- and within sight of the customer. They help quickly distinguish between gold plating and solid gold, as well as determine the accurate karat (K) weight of gold jewelry. In addition, nondestructive analysis protects precious jewelry, antiques and collectibles.
Gain process and quality control in primary metal production, elaboration, casting, and transformation involving metals and alloys. This is also applicable for central and service laboratories dealing with all kinds of metallurgical samples.
Less sample preparation
Advantages of OES and XRF analysis in precious metal analysis
OES is a solution for precious metal refiners and all processors of fine precious metals. The advantages of using OES include:
- Low detection limits and high precision on a wide range of trace elements, allowing compliance with demanding international norms
- Precise and accurate determination of trace elements (impurities)
- Precise and accurate determination of the grade
- Fully customizable PMT (photomultiplier tube) configuration
- Individual, real instrument calibrations with best available standards certified reference materials (CRMs) and analytical reference materials (RMs)
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.