Radiochemistry
This page is intended to provide information for laboratory personnel, especially radiochemists.
A few of the subjects:
- The Multi-Agency Radiological Laboratory Analytical Protocols manual, including errata
- Laboratory subsampling: Bias and variance
- Radioactive decay and ingrowth
External Links
| Radiobioassay and Radiochemical Measurements Conference (RRMC) aka the Bioassay, Analytical, and Environmental Radiochemistry (BAER) Conference |
www.rrmc.co | ||
| the original radiochemistry conference | |||
| Radiochemistry Society | www.radiochemistry.org | ||
| has a large online glossary | |||
| National Nuclear Data Center | www.nndc.bnl.gov | ||
| Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel | www.lnhb.fr/en/ | ||
| nuclear data from the Decay Data Evaluation Project (DDEP) | |||
| Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results (NIST Technical Note 1297) |  |
physics.nist.gov/Pubs/guidelines/TN1297/tn1297s.pdf | |
| the next best thing to the Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM) | |||
| EURACHEM/CITAC Guide CG 4: Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical Measurement (third ed., 2012) | eurachem.org/index.php/publications/guides/quam | ||
| NIST/SEMATECH On-line Engineering Statistics Handbook | www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook | ||
| Fundamental physical constants, with uncertainties | physics.nist.gov/cuu/constants | ||
| Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants | www.fpscsampling.com | ||
| International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) | www.bipm.org/en/home | ||
| GUM and VIM | www.bipm.org/en/publications/guides/ | ||
| SI Brochure | www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/ | ||
| International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) | www.oiml.org | ||
| International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) | www.iupac.org | ||
| has a large online glossary | |||
| National Physical Laboratory (NPL) | www.npl.co.uk | ||
| BIPM brochure on the International System of Units (SI) | www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure | ||
| NIST guidance for the use of SI units | |
physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf | |
| Radioanalytical Chemistry (textbook) | doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34123-4 | ||
| ASTM D7282: Practice for Setup, Calibration, and Quality Control of Instruments Used for Radioactivity Measurements | doi.org/10.1520/D7282 | ||
| ASTM D7902: Terminology for Radiochemical Analyses | doi.org/10.1520/D7902 | ||
| ASTM D8293: Guide for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of Radiochemical Measurements | doi.org/10.1520/D8293 | ||
| ASTM D8537: Guide for Analysis of Calibration Data for Nuclear Instruments | doi.org/10.1520/D8537-23 | ||
| EPA incident response guidance for radioanalytical laboratories | www.epa.gov/radiation/incident-response-guidance-radioanalytical-laboratories | ||
Images
In January 2014, I first tried my hand at ray-tracing some stylized images of atoms of the type often used
to suggest radionuclides or nuclear energy. Below are some of the results in PNG format, free for download and
use if you want them. Each version is provided in three or four sizes: 128 px, 256 px, 512 px, and
for the panoramic
versions, 1024 px.
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The background scenery for each of the following images is a spherical panorama.
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The last image above is the first one I made using a panorama of my own, which I built from photos taken of the count room at my lab. The panorama isn’t perfect, but it’s just a first attempt. Click here for a stereogram of the same model (and cross your eyes).
The icon for this page is an atom drawn in the same manner. I think it scales down nicely.
And finally here are several icons that I created to represent alpha particles, again using the panoramic photo of the NAREL count room. In all the variants, protons are shown as red or blue metal, with varying levels of glossiness, and neutrons are shown as red, blue, or silver metal, or as clear glass, diamond, or water. The image sizes in each icon range from 16 px to 256 px. The images used for the links themselves are 128 × 128 PNG files, which might be useful as clip art.
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