Gas chemical investigation of hafnium and zirconium complexes with hexafluoroacetylacetone using preseparated short-lived radioisotopes

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 403-418

  Dullmann Ch E ^a,b,c   Gregorich, K E ^a   Pang, G K ^a,b,f   Dragojevic I ^a,b   Eichler, R ^d,e   Folden III, C M ^b,g   Garcia, M A ^a,b   Gates, J M ^a,b   Hoffman, D C ^a,b   Nelson, S L ^b,h   Sudowe, R ^a,i   Nitsche, H ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hafnium; Hexafluoroacetylacetonates; Isothermal gas chromatogaphy; Physical preseparation; Thermochromatography; Zirconium

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349300678     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.2009.1630     Document Type: Article

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