“…Chemical treatments for analysis of 90 Sr in water mainly include pre-concentration of strontium by precipitation [1][2][3] or cation exchange [4][5][6], and purification of strontium by selective precipitation [7,8], ion exchange [9,10], liquid-liquid extraction [11,12], or solid phase extraction [3,6,7,[13][14][15][16] etc. Horwitz et al [15] studied systematically on liquid-liquid extraction using crown ether as extractant, and developed a new extraction chromatography resin for selective separation of Sr.…”