Radioanalytical Chemistry Experiments

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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The Laboratory Manual is intended to accompany the Textbook to permit teaching radioanalytical chemistry to seniors and graduate students in a program that will train radiochemists, who are badly needed at this time. The manual will 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, and developing the skill of selecting and testing new procedures.

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Principles for Radioanalytical Chemistry p. 1 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 &