A compendium on the NIST radionuclidic assays of the massic activity of 63Ni and 55Fe solutions used for an international inter comparison of liquid scintillation spectrometry techniques

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 523-549

  Colle R ^a,b   Zimmerman, B E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NIST Physics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta decay; Efficiency tracing; Hydrogen 3; Intercomparison; Iron 55; Liquid scintillation (LS); Measurements; Nickel 63; Radioactivity; Spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000515097     PISSN: 1044677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6028/jres.102.035     Document Type: Article

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