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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 965-973 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry |
Volume | 319 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 8 Dec 2018 |
Publication status | Published - 15 Mar 2019 |
Abstract
Beryllium-7, mainly measured via γ-spectrometry, is used as a (natural) radiotracer for education and science. For activities < 0.1 Bq and samples containing also longer-lived 10 Be, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is the method-of-choice. We demonstrate that 7 Be and 10 Be can be quantified at the Dresden AMS facility on the same prepared BeO. Detection limits ( 7 Be) are ~ 0.6 mBq. Samples as small as tens of millilitres of rainwater can be chemically processed (after acidification) within a few hours without expensive and slow ion exchange. Isobar ( 7 Li) suppression by chemistry and AMS is sufficient to guarantee for an ultrasensitive, cheap, and fast detection method for 7 Be allowing high sample throughput.
Keywords
- Be, Accelerator mass spectrometry, AMS, Atmospheric tracer, Rainwater
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Chemistry(all)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Energy(all)
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering
- Medicine(all)
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Environmental Science(all)
- Pollution
- Chemistry(all)
- Spectroscopy
- Medicine(all)
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Environmental Science(all)
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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In: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 319, No. 3, 15.03.2019, p. 965-973.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) for beryllium-7 measurements in smallest rainwater samples
AU - Tiessen, Collin
AU - Bemmerer, Daniel
AU - Rugel, Georg
AU - Querfeld, Rebecca
AU - Scharf, Andreas
AU - Steinhauser, Georg
AU - Merchel, Silke
N1 - Funding information: We thank Gyürky György (Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary) for production of the 7Be calibration materials. Parts of this research were carried out at the Ion Beam Centre (IBC) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V., a member of the Helmholtz Association. We would like to thank Dominik Güttler, René Ziegenrücker and the DREAMS operator team for supporting the AMS-measurements. Discussion with Andrew Smith (ANSTO) is highly appreciated. Funding from BMBF (05K16MG1) and DAAD-RISE Professional (HZDR-PH-456) allowed Collin Tiessen to stay two times at HZDR to work on this study.
PY - 2019/3/15
Y1 - 2019/3/15
N2 - Beryllium-7, mainly measured via γ-spectrometry, is used as a (natural) radiotracer for education and science. For activities < 0.1 Bq and samples containing also longer-lived 10 Be, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is the method-of-choice. We demonstrate that 7 Be and 10 Be can be quantified at the Dresden AMS facility on the same prepared BeO. Detection limits ( 7 Be) are ~ 0.6 mBq. Samples as small as tens of millilitres of rainwater can be chemically processed (after acidification) within a few hours without expensive and slow ion exchange. Isobar ( 7 Li) suppression by chemistry and AMS is sufficient to guarantee for an ultrasensitive, cheap, and fast detection method for 7 Be allowing high sample throughput.
AB - Beryllium-7, mainly measured via γ-spectrometry, is used as a (natural) radiotracer for education and science. For activities < 0.1 Bq and samples containing also longer-lived 10 Be, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is the method-of-choice. We demonstrate that 7 Be and 10 Be can be quantified at the Dresden AMS facility on the same prepared BeO. Detection limits ( 7 Be) are ~ 0.6 mBq. Samples as small as tens of millilitres of rainwater can be chemically processed (after acidification) within a few hours without expensive and slow ion exchange. Isobar ( 7 Li) suppression by chemistry and AMS is sufficient to guarantee for an ultrasensitive, cheap, and fast detection method for 7 Be allowing high sample throughput.
KW - Be
KW - Accelerator mass spectrometry
KW - AMS
KW - Atmospheric tracer
KW - Rainwater
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U2 - 10.1007/s10967-018-6371-6
DO - 10.1007/s10967-018-6371-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058085266
VL - 319
SP - 965
EP - 973
JO - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
JF - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
SN - 0236-5731
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