Determination of micelle size in some commercial liquid scintillation cocktails

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2164-2169

  Bergeron, Denis E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocktail; Dynamic light scattering; Efficiency; Liquid scintillation counting; Reverse micelle; Size effect

Indexed keywords

ACID CONTENT; COCKTAIL; COUNTING EFFICIENCY; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING MEASUREMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC DIAMETER; LIQUID SCINTILLATION; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MICELLE SIZE; REVERSE MICELLES; SIZE EFFECTS; STABLE MICELLES;

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; EFFICIENCY; LIQUIDS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

MICELLES;

NITRIC ACID; WATER;

ARTICLE; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICELLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICELLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84864115875     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2012.02.089     Document Type: Article

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