Determination of trace impurities in tin by neutron activation analysis |
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Authors: | W Maenhaut F Adams J Hoste |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for Nuclear Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, (Belgium) |
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Abstract: | A method was developed for the determination of 15 trace elements in tin. High-purity tin samples (99.9999% and 99.999%) as
well as tin of technical quality were analysed. Reactor neutron activation of the tin samples was followed by distillation
of the matrix activities from a HBr−H2SO4 medium and Ge(Li) gamma-ray spectrometry of the distillation residue. The sensitivity of the method is generally high. For
the high-purity samples the detection limits vary from 0.02 ppb (scandium) to 200 ppb (iron) for irradiation of 1 g of tin
for 1 week at a thermal flux of 5·1012n·cm−2. ·sec−1. To decontaminate the surface of the tin samples, pre- and post-irradiation etching procedures were applied. The efficiency
of these etching techniques was studied. |
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