Applicability and Limits of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis: State of the Art in the Year 2000

Colombian Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory (CNAAL): Applications and Development Using the Nuclear Research Reactor IAN-R1

“…Several expert missions were received for training of new personnel. The first objective of the Laboratory in this new stage was to provide the service of multielement analysis of geological samples, for which the relative method (comparator method in the literature) is used through certified reference materials (CRM) [13,14]. Figure 8 shows the state of the laboratory in 2009.…”

Nuclear Activation Methods in the Estimation of Environmental Pollution and the Assessment of the Industrial Plant Impact on the Citizens of Gdansk (Poland)

“…This method has stimulated research in various fields such as food analysis, chemistry, biology, geology and geochemistry, environmental science, and related fields (Orvini and Speziali 1998;Weise et al 2001;Bode and De Goeij 1998;Ryabukhin 1978;Ż ukowska and Biziuk 2008;Biziuk and Kuczyń ska 2007;Szczepaniak and Biziuk 2003;Witkowska 2005). In general, NAA is the most suitable technique for materials, which are difficult to convert into a solution for analysis and which only milligram quantities are available.…”

“…Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a very powerful method applicable for both quantitative and qualitative measurements of many elements in different samples (Orvini and Speziali 1998;Weise, Gö rner, and Hedrich 2001;Bode and De Goeij 1998). This method has stimulated research in various fields such as food analysis, chemistry, biology, geology and geochemistry, environmental science, and related fields (Orvini and Speziali 1998;Weise et al 2001;Bode and De Goeij 1998;Ryabukhin 1978;Ż ukowska and Biziuk 2008;Biziuk and Kuczyń ska 2007;Szczepaniak and Biziuk 2003;Witkowska 2005).…”

Determination of some chemical elements in Rosmarinus tournefortii de Noé using instrumental neutron activation analysis

“…Indeed, the solid sample requires an extra-preparation step involving chemical reagents, with risk of incomplete dissolution, contamination and losses. Neutron activation analysis technique, which mainly deals with solid samples, can avoid these problems (Orvini and Speziali, 1998). Instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) has excellent sensitivity and rapidity and the advantage of being largely insensitive to matrix effects; it also has precision and can execute simultaneous multi-element determinations (Yuan et al, 2011).…”