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The use of a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, whose ion source and detector operate in a synchronous regime, is proposed for the chemical and isotope analysis of gas mixtures containing radioactive tritium. The experiments performed confirm that the detector background current caused by tritium β electrons scarcely influences the signal-to-noise ratio and does not diminish the accuracy of analyses.
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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 23, 83–87 (October 26, 1997)
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Aruev, N.N., Kozlovskii, A.V., Fedichkin, I.L. et al. Possibility of analyzing deuterium-tritium gas mixtures using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Tech. Phys. Lett. 23, 811–812 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1261866
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