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Comparison of some of the analytical techniques and their applications to environmental radiostrontium determination

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The knowledge about behavior of 90Sr in environment is of importance to prevent and control contamination. A large number of analytical methods have been developed for the determination of 90Sr in environmental samples. The conducted study was focused on interpretation and evaluation of the results obtained using three radiochemical procedures for the separation of 90Sr and/or 90Y including the classical procedures based on a series of semi-selective precipitations, the ion-exchange procedure and the use of fuming nitric acid. The acquired results showed a good agreement between the compared methods within the terms of accuracy and precision.

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The research was funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, based on Annex of the contract, number: 451-03-66/2024-03/200017 and bilateral project RS-HR/2016-09-38. The support by the Slovenian Research Agency (research programme P2-0075 and bilateral project BI-RS/16-17-029) is acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Radiation and Environmental Protection, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences − National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovića Alasa 12−14, 11001, Belgrade, Serbia

    Nataša B. Sarap & Marija M. Janković

  2. Laboratory for Radioecology, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička Cesta 54, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Marijana Nodilo & Željko Grahek

  3. Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova Cesta 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Marko Štrok

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Sarap, N.B., Nodilo, M., Štrok, M. et al. Comparison of some of the analytical techniques and their applications to environmental radiostrontium determination. J Radioanal Nucl Chem (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-024-09499-2

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