Synopses & Reviews
The education of the radioanalytical chemist has two critical components: theory and practice. The textbook Radioanalytical Chemistry was designed to address the theory component of this education. This laboratory manual accompanies and complements that textbook. This manual provides a framework for the student to hone their laboratory skills, with emphasis on safety, research, experimental design, instrumentation and appropriate laboratory methods.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
This Manual accompanies the Textbook, teaching radioanalytical chemistry to seniors and graduate students. The manual and its accompanying CD-ROM 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.
Table of Contents
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 p. 91 Experiment 11 Vegetation Sample Preparation for Radiochemical Analysis of Radio-Strontium Isotopes p. 94 Experiment 12 Determination of Radio-strontium Isotopes in Environmental Samples p. 101 Experiment 13 Determination of Radio-strontium in Water with a Strontium-specific Solid-phase Extraction Column p. 111 Experiment 14 Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in Water By Ion Exchange Chromatographic Separation p. 117 Experiment 15 Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in Water by Solvent Extraction p. 129 Exercise 2 Selection of a Method for the Radiochemical Determination of Plutonium in an Environmental Sample p. 134 Experiment 16 Gamma Ray Spectral Analysis of a Mixed-fission-product Solution p. 136 Experiment 17 Measurement of Uranium Isotopes by Mass Spectrometer p. 144 Appendices p. 150