You are in charge of purchasing a new diffractometer for your company. The business of the company is the manufacture of alumina (Al 2 O 3 ). The powder diffractometer will be the workhorse in department quality control. 

routine experiments will include the collection of powder diffraction data from ceramic samples to analyze its structure and composition of the phases. A high speed in data collection is critical because a typical number of samples to analyze is 100 or more. The following Options are available from different vendors: -Sealed X-ray Cu tube, scintillation detector; lowest cost -Sealed X-ray Cu tube, solid state detector; $10,000 more than the first option. -Sealed X-ray Cu tube, curved position sensitive detector; $25,000 more than the first option. What recommendations are you going to make to your boss without the fear of being fired during the first month after delivery of the instrument?