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Certain aspects of the liquid scintillation measurement of14C in ethanol

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In this paper the quenching effect of ethanol in NE 267 liquid scintillation cocktail is investigated when14C is measured at environmental concentrations. The results obtained show that with a proper selection of amplifier gain and discriminators setting it is possible to achieve efficiency as high as 80% and up to 5 g of sample carbon in the cocktail. This is very important for the direct measurement of14C for environmental protection purposes in different chemical forms without applying the standard radiocarbon procedures. In all cases the quenching effect of the chemical form in which14C is being measured has to be determined.

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  1. Radiochemical Laboratory, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

    K. Kostadinov & Y. Yanev

  2. Laboratory of Nuclear Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

    P. Fodor-Csányi

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Kostadinov, K., Yanev, Y. & Fodor-Csányi, P. Certain aspects of the liquid scintillation measurement of14C in ethanol. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 118, 373–378 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02170471

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