Extractive procedure for uranium determination in water samples by liquid scintillation counting

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 875-883

  Escobar, V Gómez ^a   Vera Tome F ^a   Lozano, J C ^b   Sánchez, A Martín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; NITRATES; RADON; URANIUM; WATER;

LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

NITRATE; POLONIUM; RADON; RADON 226; THORIUM; THORIUM 230; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM 232; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 238;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROMETRY; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032128457     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)10001-X     Document Type: Article

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