Nondestructive spectrometric study on a radioactive particle embedded in a marine sediment

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 321-327

  Bielewski, Marek ^a   Himbert, Jerome ^a   Niagolova, Nedialka ^a   Falkenberg, Gerald ^b   Eriksson, Mats ^c   Betti, Maria ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c MC 98000 ^*  (Monaco)

Author keywords

Confocal; Elemental analysis; Particle; Radioactive; Sediment; SEM; SIMS; Synchrotron radiation; XANES; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749087114     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927608080707     Document Type: Article

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