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Determination of silver using cyclic epithermal neutron activation analysis

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A fast pneumatic transfer facility was installed in Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL) of the University of Texas at Austin for the purpose of cyclic thermal and epithermal neutron activation analysis. In this study efforts were focused on the evaluation of cyclic epithermal neutron activation analysis (CENAA). Various NIST and CANMET certified materials were analyzed by the system. Experiment results showed 110Ag with its 25 s half-life as one of the isotopes favored by the system. Thus, the system was put into practical application in identifying silver in metallic ores. Comparison of sliver concentrations as determined by CENAA in CANMET certified reference materials gave very good results.

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  1. Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab, University of Texas at Austin, R-9000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    T.-H. Pun & S. Landsberger

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Pun, TH., Landsberger, S. Determination of silver using cyclic epithermal neutron activation analysis. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 291, 509–513 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-011-1271-z

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