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A non-destructive system for determination of silver traces in air particulates collected on cellulose filters is described, based on neutron activation followed by110Ag β− counting instead of the 657.7 keV γ-ray. The determination limit (for 10% confidence limit) is estimated to be about 10−9 g. The method is easily applicable to the determination of silver in cloud seeding experiments, since the filters themselves provide a consistent and fairly uniform source and samples are collected in general far from industrial areas, where the concentration of possible interfering elements in air is reasonably low.
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Albini, A., Cesana, A. & Terrani, M. Determination of silver traces in air by neutron activation analysis. J. Radioanal. Chem. 34, 185–190 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02521520
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