Molar-mass measurement of a 28Si-enriched silicon crystal for determination of the Avogadro constant

Metrologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 161-168

  Narukawa, Tomohiro ^a   Hioki, Akiharu ^a   Kuramoto, Naoki ^a   Fujii, Kenichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avogadro constant; isotope dilution mass spectrometry; molar mass measurement; multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROMETERS;

AVOGADRO CONSTANT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETER; ISOTOPE DILUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLAR-MASS MEASUREMENTS; SILICON CRYSTAL;

SILICON;

EID: 84901676024     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/51/3/161     Document Type: Article

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