Elimination of interelement effects in the determination of bromine by 14 MeV neutron activation analysis based on characteristic X-ray measurements

• DOI: 10.1007/bf02166652
• Publication Date: 2005-09-16T22:04:26Z
• Authors: A. M. Barouni; L. Bakos; É. Zemplén-Papp
• Keywords: Praseodymium; Neutron Activation Analysis

The problem of converting measured intensities into mass concentrations arises from the fact that the measured intensity of a characteristic X-ray line of an element or compound depends not only on the mass concentration of that element or compound but also on the nature and abundance of the other constituents of the specimen. In this work the empirical coefficient method which comprises both absorption and enhancement effects of each element on each other element by parameters independent of mass concentrations was used for correction of enhancement effects from antimony and praseodymium on bromine in two groups of samples. The results of analysis of bromine shows a relative error of not more than ±4%.