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Advances in liquid scintillation spectrometry barcelona 18 liquid scintillation counting lsc is a widely used technique for radionuclide determination in many different fields. In scintillation counting, the sample is mixed with a material that will fluoresce upon interaction with a particle emitted by radioactive decay. Chapter 1 general principles of liquid scintillation. Find out information about scintillation spectrometer. A liquid scintillation spectrometry method for the determination of 234th in seawater with 230th as the yield tracer has been developed and validated.
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