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An investigation into the use of the nuclear microprobe for examining distributions of boron isotopes

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A technique has been developed to permit the distribution of boron isotopes in metal samples to be measured with the nuclear microprobe. Samples are irradiated with focussed beams of α-particles, and protons from the (α, p) reactions on both10B and11B are counted. Particle spectroscopy enables contributions from the two isotopes to be determined separately from the same spectrum and distributions can be followed by varying the position of the ion beam on the sample surface.

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  1. C. Olivier

    Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa

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  1. Applied Chemistry Division, AERE, Harwell, Oxon, (England)

    C. Olivier, J. W. McMillan & T. B. Pierce

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Olivier, C., McMillan, J.W. & Pierce, T.B. An investigation into the use of the nuclear microprobe for examining distributions of boron isotopes. J. Radioanal. Chem. 31, 515–523 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02518515

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