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SIPS 2016 Volume 11: Physics, Advanced/Multifunctional Materials, Composite, Quasi-crystals, Coating
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Marquis F, Lu L, Xia H, Masset P, Rokicki P |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 180 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-56-0 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Nuclear Analytical Techniques: Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) and Isotope Dilution Analysis (IDA) for Environmental Samples
Mamata Lanjewar1; Ratnakar Lanjewar2;1DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, RASHTRASANT TUKADOJI MAHARAJ NAGPUR UNIVERSITY, Nagpur, India; 2DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, DHARAMPETH M.P.DEO MEMORIAL SCIENCE COLLEGE, NAGPUR, Nagpur, India;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 473
Topic: 21
Abstract:
Reliable analytical measurements of environmental samples are essential ingredients of sound decisions involving many facets of society including safeguarding the public health, improving the quality of environment and facilitating advances in technology. Neutron activation analysis (NAA) and Isotope dilution analysis (IDA) are among the most revolutionary techniques which strode past to other analytical methods. NAA is an extremely sensitive, selective and precise method which yields wealth of information on major, minor and trace constituents of just few milligram samples of all kind of matrices. An advantage of NAA its abilities to simultaneously determined most elements in the Periodic table with low detection limit.
NAA and IDA has been widely used for geological, biological, environmental, industrial, archaeological and forensic samples. These have been used as standard techniques for the characterization of Standard/ Certified Reference materials at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST, USA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna and other such agencies. Basic principle of NAA is to irradiate the material with neutrons resulting in the production of Radioactive nuclide with the emission of β- and ϒ-radiations. The elemental concentration were calculated using the respective gamma ray energies.
In the present paper we have employed NAA and IDA for the multi-elemental (~40 elements up-to ppm and ppb level) analysis of large number of natural systems such as water, soil, fugitive and ambient dust particulates matter from industrial establishments and several other samples of environmental importance using 113 cm-3 HPGe detector (PGT, Germany). Also several Environmental Standard/ Certified Reference Materials were analysed for quality assurance of our data as well as a part of Inter-laboratory comparison study. An attempt has been made to attribute the elemental contents to possible sources of origin.
(Key words: Nuclear, Environment, NAA, IDA)
Keywords:
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