Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume/Issue:
Volume 167: Issue 2
Improvement of analytical sensitivities for the determination of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, indium, iodine, molybdenum, silicon and uranium in airborne particulate matter by epithermal neutron activation analysis
Authors: S. Landsberger 1 and D. Wu 1
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  • 1 University of Illinois, 214 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory Department of Nuclear Engineering 103 South Goodwin Ave 61801 Urbana IL (USA)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02037181
Page Count:
219–225
Publication Date:
17 Jan 1993
Online Publication Date:
14 Aug 2005
Article Category:
Research Article
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Abstract  

As part of an ongoing Great Lakes deposition study, we have determined a series of heavy metals in air filter samples collected near Lake Ontario. To decrease our detection limits for key elements used in our receptor modeling, we have employed instrumental epithermal neutron activation analysis (NAA) and Compton suppression techniques. Our detection limits were much better than those with thermal NAA, typically, 0.3 ng for Sb, 0.7 ng for As, 8 ng for Cd, 0.2 ng for In, 14 ng for I, 5 ng for Mo and 2 ng for U. Silicon, which is usually not reported in conventional NAA results for air filters, was routinely determined at the 60 g level. Accuracy was corroborated by analyzing the certified reference material concurrently.

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Print ISSN:
0236-5731
Online ISSN:
1588-2780

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