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in situ Determination of Radioisotopes in Certain Spring Waters and Spring Mud in Erzurum, Turkey

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2016.19824
Ugur Akbaba
Education Faculty, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey
Erdem Sakar
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Yusuf Sahin
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Ali Gürol
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey

Corresponding Author(s) : Erdem Sakar

erdem@atauni.edu.tr

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 28 No. 6 (2016): Vol 28 Issue 6

Abstract

In this study, the qualitative determination of radioisotopes of spring waters in Ilica, Köprüköy and Hasankale and spring mud of Köprüköy was made using a portable counting system coupled to NaI(Tl) detector. It was determined that an isotope is present when identified by the measuring system in all replicate measurements. In order to confirm the existence of the less identified radioisotope, a second high probable transition energy of the radioisotope was determined from the isotopes table and this transition energy was searched for in the measured spectra. The radioisotopes in three spring waters and a spring mud were determined using newly described analysis procedures. It is concluded that these waters and mud have the same aquifer.

Keywords

Radioisotope Spring water Spring mud Qualitative analysis NaI(Tl) detector
Akbaba, U., Sakar, E., Sahin, Y., & Gürol, A. (2016). in situ Determination of Radioisotopes in Certain Spring Waters and Spring Mud in Erzurum, Turkey. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 28(6), 1393–1396. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2016.19824
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