A thermostable cocktail for the liquid scintillation counting of heterogeneous media

✍ Scribed by R.C. Noble; J.H. Shand; H.F. Wagstaff

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2697
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(82)90249-4

✦ Synopsis

Considerable analytical errors arise in the liquid scintillation counting of heterogeneous media as a consequence of gel instability. With large sample numbers, a major causative factor of this instability is temperature changes during the counting period. An emulsifierscintillation cocktail has been designed to provide stable counting conditions for heterogeneous media over a temperature range of lo-30°C. i.e., the wide range of temperature likely to be encountered in liquid scintillation counters lacking sample cooling facilities. A comparison was made with a conventional commercially available emulsifier-scintillator.