Production of monodisperse uranium oxide particles and their characterization by scanning electron microscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica acta, Part B: Atomic spectroscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1565-1575

  Erdmann, N ^a   Betti, M ^a,b   Stetzer, O ^a   Tamborini, G ^b   Kratz, J V ^a   Trautmann, N ^b   Van Geel, J ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION; NUCLEAR MATERIALS SAFEGUARDS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

NUCLEAR FORENSIC ANALYSIS; URANIUM OXIDE;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034298758     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(00)00262-7     Document Type: Article

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