Determination of the 10Be half-life by multicollector ICP-MS and liquid scintillation counting

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

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 192-199

  Chmeleff, Jérôme ^a   von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm ^a   Kossert, Karsten ^b   Jakob, Dieter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

10Be half life; Liquid scintillation counting; Multicollector ICP MS

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; BIAS FACTOR; CATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ERROR PROPAGATION; GLASS AMPOULES; ICP-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDEPENDENT SET; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MC-ICP-MS; MEASUREMENT CONDITIONS; MULTI-COLLECTOR; MULTICOLLECTOR ICP-MS; RATIO STANDARD; SPACE CHARGE EFFECTS; STANDARD SOLUTIONS; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMIUM; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTS; HAFNIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; LIQUIDS; LUMINESCENCE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPECTROMETRY; STANDARDS;

SOLUTION MINING;

EID: 76449087766     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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