compute_pretreatment_loss: Determine loss of mass during specimen pretreatment

compute_pretreatment_lossR Documentation

Determine loss of mass during specimen pretreatment

Description

Rather than oven-drying the pretreated sample and then re-dispersing it, it is often more convenient to run a separate (duplicate) analysis of the pretreatment for organic matter, carbonates, or Fe-oxides and subtract the pretreatement loss from the actual tested specimen's initial oven-dry mass. compute_preatreatment_loss() does this by reading a data file titled 'pretreatment_loss_data_\<date\>.csv' and referring to the other files containing the air-dry specimen masses and the hygrscopic water contents.

Usage

compute_pretreatment_loss()

Value

tibble of sample info plus % of OD sample mass lost


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