Radioanalytical Chemistry Experiments
Samenvatting
This Manual accompanies the Textbook, teaching radioanalytical chemistry to seniors and graduate students. The manual can be used in conjunction with the textbook to teach a 3-hour lecture course and a 6-hour laboratory. The experiments address a range of practical aspects in the radiochemistry laboratory: use of laboratory and radiation detection equipment, performing specific analyses for radio-iodine, radio-strontium, uranium, and plutonium.
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Experiment 1
Practice in Pipetting and Weighing Samples for Radioactivity Counting p. 9
Experiment 2
Radiation Detection Instrument Calibration and Quality Assurance p. 14
Experiment 3
Determination of Gamma Ray Self-absorption in a KCl Sample p. 28
Experiment 4
Preparation of a Beta-particle Self-absorption Curve for 40K p. 33
Experiment 5
Preparation and Standardization of Carriers p. 39
Experiment 6
Preparation of 242Pu Tracer Solution p. 42
Experiment 7
Basic Radiochemical Separation Techniques: Precipitation,
Solvent Extraction, and Ion Exchange p. 48
Experiment 8
Determination of Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Drinking Water p. 64
Experiment 9
Radiochemical Determination of Tritium in Water p. 77
Experiment 10
Determination of 131I in Water p. 83
Exercise 1
Modification of a Published Procedure for the Determination
of Picocurie Concentrations of Iodine-131 in Milk &

