Recommended values of 239Pu, 240Pu and 239+240Pu concentrations in reference material IAEA-315 (Marine Sediment) estimated by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry and alpha spectrometry

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-101

  Shinonaga, Taeko ^a   Aigner, Helmuth ^a   Klose, Dilani ^a   Spinder, Peter ^b   Fröschl, Heinz ^b   Donohue, David ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

239+240Pu; 239Pu; 240Pu; Alpha spectrometry; IAEA 315; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; NIST 4350B; NIST 4354; Recommended value; Reference material; Thermal ionisation mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949159238     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2008.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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