文摘
We argue that the so-called l-lysinium succinate 1 (Kalaivani et al. (2015) [16], zinc chloride doped l-lysinium succinate 2 (Kalaivani et al. (2015) [17], l-threonine phthalate 3 (Elberin Mary Theras et al. (2015) [18] and sodium acetate doped l-tyrosine 4 (Arthi et al. (2015) [19] are all dubious crystals. Taking compounds 1–4 as examples we show that EDAX is an inappropriate method for characterization of new materials based on elemental composition data.