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The chemical stability of various chelates of La and Pr, as they were carried by water through a large soil column, were evaluated. The purpose of this work was to identify potential radioactive or neutron activatable groundwater tracers. This work established that of the chelates tested, Pr-DTPA followed by La-DTPA were the most stable and thus suitable for testing as groundwater tracers.
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Jester, W.A., Briceno, M., Jarrett, A.R. et al. Evaluation of lanthanum and praseodymium chelates of DTPA, CDTA, EDTA, and NTA as groundwater tracers. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 110, 215–220 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02055023
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