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The use of high accuracy NAA for the certification of NIST botanical standard reference materials

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Neutron activation analysis is one of many analytical techniques used at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the certification of NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRMs). NAA competes favorably with all other techniques because of it's unique capabilities for high accuracy even at very low concentrations for many elements. In this paper, instrumental and radiochemical NAA results are described for 25 elements in two new NIST SRMs, SRM 1515 (Apple Leaves) and SRM 1547 (Peach Leaves), and are compared to the certified values for 19 elements in these two new botanical reference materials.

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  1. Nuclear Methods Group, IARD/CSTL, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 20899, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    D. A. Becker, R. R. Greenberg & S. F. Stone

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Becker, D.A., Greenberg, R.R. & Stone, S.F. The use of high accuracy NAA for the certification of NIST botanical standard reference materials. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 160, 41–53 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02041656

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