Determination of elemental composition of Zr-Nb alloys by Glow Discharge Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry

Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 157-164

  Shekhar, Raparthi ^a   Arunachalam, J ^a   Radha Krishna, G ^b   Ravindra, H R ^b   Gopalan, B ^b  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ARGON; NIOBIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; ZIRCONIUM;

ACCURACY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLOW RATE; GLOW DISCHARGE QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SPECTROMETER; VACUUM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4644250768     PISSN: 01955373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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