Compartmental analysis of results of radiotracer experiments in non-living systems in steady state

Compartmental analysis has for many decades been used for the evaluation of results of mainly in vivo radiotracer experiments. However, its potential for working out similar experiments, but in non-living systems, has as yet been rather overlooked. This paper aims at reversing this situation. To this end some basic principles of compartmental analysis are given followed by examples of its use in chemistry related laboratory radiotracer studies. (author)