Rare earth elements content in geological samples from eastern desert, Egypt, determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1859-1863

  El Taher, A ^a  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egyptian geological samples; INAA; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

ALKALI FELDSPAR; ANALYTICAL TOOL; CERTIFIED VALUES; DECAY TIME; DETECTION LIMITS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; GAMMA SPECTRUM; GEOLOGICAL SAMPLES; GRANODIORITE; HPGE DETECTORS; INAA; INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATIONS; MONZOGRANITE; MULTI-CHANNEL ANALYZER; NON DESTRUCTIVE; REACTOR FACILITIES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIAL; TONALITE;

GRANITE;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

CERIUM; DYSPROSIUM; ERBIUM; EUROPIUM; GADOLINIUM; HOLMIUM; LANTHANIDE; LANTHANUM; LUTETIUM; NEODYMIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; TERBIUM; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; EGYPT; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION PROCESSING; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; DESERT CLIMATE; METHODOLOGY; SOIL;

ALGORITHMS; DESERT CLIMATE; EGYPT; METALS, RARE EARTH; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SOIL;

EID: 79952202085     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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