Investigating uranium isotopic distributions in environmental samples using AMS and MC-ICPMS

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 733-738

  Buchholz, B A ^a   Brown, T A ^a   Hamilton, T F ^a   Hutcheon, I D ^a   Marchetti, A A ^a   Martinelli, R E ^a   Ramon, E C ^a   Tumey, S J ^a   Williams, R W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

236U; Natural uranium; Uranium isotopes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY (AMS); MINOR ISOTOPES; NATURAL URANIUM; URANIUM ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 34248372074     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.01.248     Document Type: Article

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