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Why is excessive grinding sometimes harmful?

  • A.It contaminates the sample with the mortar's material
  • B.It can convert one crystalline form to another
  • C.It heats the sample enough to decompose it
  • D.It introduces water from the atmosphere

Answer: B

Mechanical energy can convert a metastable polymorph into a different one, whose infrared spectrum differs, so the analysis reports a form that was created rather than found. Heating, moisture and contamination are lesser risks that also exist. That a preparation step can change the very property being measured is a hazard worth knowing in any solid-state technique, and it is one reason attenuated total reflectance, which needs no grinding, is preferred.

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