All steel products selected in this project were measured by
XRF technique to determine their elemental compositions.
The long products and the flat products were collected randomly
from the local Saudi market. Three samples of 4 cm
length were cut in the workshop from each long product types.
Also, three samples from each flat product types were cut in
square foil of about 16 cm2
. The second important treatment
is grinding and polishing of the two faces of each sample.
The last step of this sample preparation is the cleaning by acetone
of the polished sample faces. Therefore, for each steel
product there were six faces ready to be measured by XRF