Published 1994 | Version v1
Miscellaneous

The separation of 10Be from silicates

  • 1. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd., Lower Hutt (New Zealand)

Description

An improved method of separation of cosmogenic 10Be from soils and sediments has been developed. 10Be is either leached from samples with 6 M HCl, or if necessary, sediments are totally decomposed with HF and KF fusion. This paper concentrates on the latter. All of the iron, most of the aluminium and some titanium are complexed with EDTA and retained in solution during a series of Be(OH)2 precipitations. Remnant aluminium and beryllium are leached from the last titanium/aluminium/beryllium hydroxide precipitate with NaOH. A small cation exchange column in sulfate form is employed for the final purification of Be from Al and the overall yield is about 90 percents. 10 refs

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Publishing Information

ISBN
0-646-22869-2
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 3rd workshop of the South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association (SPERA). Extended abstracts
Imprint Pagination
103 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 4-7.
Report number
INIS-mf--14669

Conference

Title
3. SPERA workshop.
Dates
15-17 Feb 1994.
Place
Canberra (Australia).

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Lead record
hegq2-mgv26