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Preparation Techniques for the Analysis of Stable Bromine Isotopes

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The Geochemistry of Stable Chlorine and Bromine Isotopes

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Shortly after the development of the mass spectrograph it was discovered that bromine consists of two stable isotopes (Aston in Nature 105:547, 1920a, Phil Mag 40:628–634, 1920c). Later it was confirmed that the two isotopes have abundances which are bout equal (Aston in Proc R Soc Lond A 132:487–498, 1931).

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Eggenkamp, H. (2014). Preparation Techniques for the Analysis of Stable Bromine Isotopes. In: The Geochemistry of Stable Chlorine and Bromine Isotopes. Advances in Isotope Geochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28506-6_5

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