Determination of plutonium in seawater using co-precipitation and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with ultrasonic nebulization

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 53 B, Issue 6-8, 1998, Pages 1221-1233

  Eroglu, Ahmet E ^a   McLeod, Cameron W ^a   Leonard, Kinson S ^a   McCubbin, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION EXCHANGE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLUTONIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEAWATER; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS); ULTRASONIC NEBULIZATION;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0032490402     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0584-8547(98)00179-7     Document Type: Article

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