Determination of thorium concentrations and activity ratios in silicate rocks by alpha spectrometry

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-97

  Dos Santos, R N ^a,b   Marques, L S ^a   Nicolai, S H A ^a   Ribeiro, F B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

230Th 232Th activity ratios; Brazilian geological standards; Chemical separation; Electrodeposition; Ion exchange chromatography; Thorium concentrations

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; ROCKS; SILICATES; SPECTROMETERS;

SILICATE ROCKS;

THORIUM;

SILICATE; THORIUM 230; THORIUM 232; TRACER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BASALT; BRAZIL; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAMMA RADIATION; GRANITE; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCHEMISTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROCK; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0345735489     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2003.09.013     Document Type: Article

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