This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of samarium. A unit of SRM 3147a consists of five 10 mL sealed borosilicate glass ampoules of an acidified aqueous solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of samarium. The solution contains nitric acid at a volume fraction of approximately 10 %, which is equivalent to a concentration (molarity) of approximately 1.6 mol/L. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of silicon. A unit of SRM 3150 consists of 50 mL of solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of silicon in a high-density polyethylene bottle sealed in an aluminized bag. The solution is prepared gravimetrically from sodium metasilicate nonahydrate to contain a known mass fraction of silicon in water. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of silver. A unit of SRM 3151 consists of five 10 mL sealed borosilicate glass ampoules of an acidified aqueous solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of silver. The solution contains nitric acid at a mass fraction of approximately 14 %. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of thallium. A unit of SRM 3158 consists of five 10 mL sealed borosilicate glass ampoules of an acidified aqueous solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of thallium. The solution contains nitric acid at a volume fraction of approximately 10 %. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of vanadium. A unit of SRM 3165 consists of five 10 mL sealed borosilicate glass ampoules of an acidified aqueous solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of vanadium. The solution contains nitric acid at an amount of substance concentration (molarity) of approximately 1.6 mol/L. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of antimony. A unit of SRM 3102a consists of 50 mL of an acidified aqueous solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of antimony in a high-density polyethylene bottle sealed in an aluminized bag.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use as a primary calibration standard for the quantitative determination of tellurium. A unit of SRM 3156 consists of five 10 mL sealed borosilicate glass ampoules of an acidified aqueous solution prepared gravimetrically to contain a known mass fraction of tellurium. The solution contains hydrochloric acid at a volume fraction of approximately 10 %, which is equivalent to an amount of substance concentration (molarity) of approximately 1.2 mol/L. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is in the form of chips sized between 0.50 and 1.18 mm sieve openings (35 and 16 mesh). It is intended for use primarily in chemical methods of analysis. Similar material for use in spectrometric methods of analysis is available as SRM 1297. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

SRM 1297 Stainless Steel (SAE 201) - 'This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended for use in optical emission and x-ray spectrometric methods of analysis. It is in the form of a disk approximately 32 mm in diameter and 19 mm thick. This data is public in the Certificate of Analysis for this material.

Materials discovery and development necessarily begins with the preparation and identification of product phase(s). Crystalline compounds can be identified by their characteristic diffraction patterns using X-rays, neutrons, and or electrons. An estimated 20,000 X-ray diffractometers and a comparable number of electron microscopes are used daily in materials research and development laboratories for this purpose.