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The design and operation of a new small-angle X-ray scattering instrument, optimized for high throughput at a synchrotron source, high angular and wavelength resolution, large sample cross-sectional area, accurate energy tuning, excellent signal-to-noise ratio and harmonic rejection are presented. The principles of design and implementation are given, as are the details of primary calibration of absolute intensity and experimental desmearing. The instrument has been tested for application to anomalous-scattering measurements near the chromium K edge. Preliminary results on samples of a heat-treated steel are presented as a demonstration of the capability of this experiment to separate the microstructure evolution as a function of temperature of a chromium-rich precipitate from the thermal behavior of other precipitates in the steel.
