Question

Organic and organic based materials give which type of powder patterns?

(a) Very good quality powder pattern

(b) Very poor quality powder pattern

(c) Doesn’t give powder pattern at all

(d) High concentrated powder pattern

This question was addressed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Sources of Background Radiation Fluorescence in portion X-Ray Diffraction of Solid State Chemistry

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) Very poor quality powder pattern

For explanation I would say: Due to the combined effects of reduced diffracted intensity and increased background intensity, organic and organic-based (e.g. polymeric) materials give poor quality powdered patterns.