Development of a methodology for the determination of americium and thorium by ICP-AES and their inter-element effect

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1259-1264

  Sengupta, A ^a   Adya, V C ^a   Godbole, S V ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Americium; Detection limits; ICP AES; Spectral interference; Thorium

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; THORIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LIMIT OF DETECTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863453170     PISSN: 02365731     EISSN: 15882780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10967-011-1589-6     Document Type: Article

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