Efficient separation of uranium and thorium by chromatography: Applications in U-Th thermal ionization mass spectrometry

Journal of the Geological Society of China

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 319-330

  You, Chen Feng ^a   Bickle, Mike J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Thorium isotope; TIMS; TRU(SPEC); Uranium isotope

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 0033506180     PISSN: 10187057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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