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14 MeV neutron activation of ternary copper silver selenide gives rise to a predominant activity from the 0.511 MeV annihilation peak from the three elements when γ-ray spectrometry is used. To overcome the interference problems, X-ray spectrometry was applied to the simultaneous nondestructive determination of silver and selenium, after which copper can be determined by γ-ray spectrometry. The results of analysis show a relative error not higher than ±5%, when the samples were diluted with H3BO3 /≃90%/ to minimize the interelement effects.
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Barouni, A.M., Bakos, L. & Zemplén-Papp, É. 14 MeV neutron activation analysis of ternary copper ilver selenide by X-ray and gamma-ray spectrometry. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 136, 75–83 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02164097
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