Transition-Metal Alchemist: "Not to mention Camels" edition

An Indian team of nanotech researchers put a lot of effort into a particular scatter of points, so they have used this Dromedary Distribution ten times in six different publications. In each case it is presented as high-resolution X-Ray spectroscopy resolving fine details within a spectral peak -- at a different range of the X-ray energy spectrum -- and used to justify a different combination of basis functions. I won't say fit a combination of basis functions, as in each case the colour-coded humps of basis functions appear to be hand-drawn with crayons, and bear no relationship to the "best-fit" curve supposedly combining them.

"Figure 1. ...Deconvulated XPS spectra of elements present in Pd@WO3-NDs: ...(F) O 1s ... and (I) N 1s."

Cow Dung Derived PdNPs@WO3 Porous Carbon Nanodiscs as Trifunctional Catalysts for Design of Zinc–Air Batteries and Overall Water Splitting

"Fig. 2 ... High-resolution XPS spectra of ... (D) Se 3d...and (F) S 2p regions of NHDs."

Multifunctional fluorescent chalcogenide hybrid nanodots (MoSe2:CdS and WSe2:CdS) as electro catalyst (for oxygen reduction/oxygen evolution reactions) and sensing probe for lead

"Figure 2. (a) XPS spectrum of CCDs. Deconvoluted (b) C 1s, (c) N 1s, and (d) O 1s XPS spectra of CCDs."

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"Figure 2: Detailed (deconvuluted) XPS spectra for...(B) O 1s, (C) B 1s... present in the graphene foams."

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"Figure 2: ... Deconvoluted spectra of SU-CNPs: ... (E) O1s and (F) N1s."

Designing of carbon based fluorescent nanosea-urchin via green-synthesis approach for live cell detection of zinc oxide nanoparticle

"Figure 2: ...Deconvuluted XPS spectra of ... (E) Se 3d,..."

Designing of transition metal dichalcogenides based different shaped trifunctional electrocatalyst through “adjourn-reaction” scheme

One can forgive the reviewers of each paper not knowing about the other appearances of the Dromedary Distribution, but how did they not spot its appearance in adjacent panels of the same Figure?
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In the same vein, the Bactrian Distribution turns up seven times in five papers in the authors' oeuvre.

"Figure 1. ...Deconvulated XPS spectra of elements present in Pd@WO3-NDs: (E) W 4f, ... (G) Pd 3d,..."

Cow Dung Derived PdNPs@WO3 Porous Carbon Nanodiscs as Trifunctional Catalysts for Design of Zinc–Air Batteries and Overall Water Splitting

"Fig. 2 ... High-resolution XPS spectra of ... (C) W 4f..."
"Figure 1: ... XPS spectra of cube- shaped Ag/AgCl nanoparticles: (C) Ag 3d..."

Multifunctional fluorescent chalcogenide hybrid nanodots (MoSe2:CdS and WSe2:CdS) as electro catalyst (for oxygen reduction/oxygen evolution reactions) and sensing probe for lead

A battle between spherical and cube-shaped Ag/AgCl nanoparticle modified imprinted polymer to achieve femtogram detection of alpha-feto protein

"Fig. 1... Deconvoluted XPS spectra of (B) Ag 3d," 

Shape effect on the fabrication of imprinted nanoparticles: Comparison between spherical-, rod-, hexagonal-, and flower-shaped nanoparticles

"Figure 2: ...Deconvuluted XPS spectra of (C) W 4f, (D) Mo 3d..."

Designing of transition metal dichalcogenides based different shaped trifunctional electrocatalyst through “adjourn-reaction” scheme

One cannot fault the authors' commitment to recycling.

UPDATE: (A) and (B) here may be the originals of the Dromedary and Bactrian Curves respectively, before the data points were bedecked with noise.

"Figure 4. Deconvoluted XPS spectra of (A) O 1s, (B) Eu 3d, (C) Ir 4f"

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