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Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib... by rwmj on Monday July 02, 2018 @05:13AM (#17440281)
On a side point, handheld XRF readers are really cool. It's literally you point the device at a sample and it tells you what chemicals are in it. But why do they cost such a huge amount of money? Last I looked they were about $20,000-30,000 range.

example: https://www.bruker.com/fileadmin/user_upload/8-PDF-Docs/X-ra...

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Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib... by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:17PM (#17442930)
Divide the cost of development by the number of devices expected to be sold within a reasonable payback period and add a percentage of profit required to make it worthwhile developing the thing in the first place and you'd probably come up with a pretty close approximation to the same price.
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