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a 4 Table 1 Neutron Activation Analysis Elements

Aluminum Neodymium Antimony Nickel Neutron activation analysis is an Argon Niobium analytical technique for identifying and Arsenic Osmium measuring trace quantities of a large Barium Palladium number of elements in many types of Bromine Platinum materials. Sixty-seven common and rare Cadmium Potassium earth elements become radioactive when Calcium Praseodymium exposed to the neutron flux in a reactor. Cerium Rhenium The subsequent radiation emitted by the Cesium Rhodium decay of activated nuclei is unique for each Chlorine Rubidium element, and its measurement permits Chromium Ruthenium identification. Of the 67 radioactive Cobalt Samarium elements, over 50 can be identified and Copper Scandium measured quite readily. The method Dysprosium Selenium permits measurement of all detectable Erbium Silver elements simultaneously; it is rapid and Europium Sodium non-destructive. Gadolinium Strontium Gallium Tantalum The highly sensitive analytical Germanium Tellurium technique of neutron activation analysis is Gold Terbium available as a service performed by the Hafnium Thulium laboratory staff. Alternatively, it can be Holmium Thorium performed directly by investigators using Indium Tin the laboratory’s facilities. In addition, Iodine Titanium samples can be irradiated and returned to Iridium Tungsten users so that they may perform their own Iron Uranium analyses on their own equipment. Krypton Vanadium Lanthanum Xenon The Nuclear Reactor Laboratory has Lutetium Ytterbium two primary analysis systems: (1) Nuclear Magnesium Yttrium Data 6660 - a multi-user system capable of Manganese Zinc simultaneously analyzing many Mercury Zirconium parameters associated with a single Molybdenum experiment and (2) Nuclear Data 6700 - a multi-user system which can receive inputs from many detectors associated with many experiments, but can analyze only a single There are practical limits to neutron parameter associated with any experiment. activation analysis. A number of elements are relatively insensitive to neutron absorption. Calcium is an example. Others, such as rhodium, decay rapidly and make the analysis that follows activation difficult. For other elements

9 including argon, krypton, neon, oxygen, the amount of aldehyde buildup in silicon, sulfur, thallium, and xenon, lubricants. Aldehydes are oxidation techniques such as chemical products that result from the breakdown of concentration, filtration, special hydrocarbon based lubricants. Samples of encapsulation, and special irradiation lubricant are treated with Tollen’s Reagent methods are necessary to perform neutron which reacts with aldehydes to precipitate activation analysis. For the remaining silver. The silver precipitate is separated elements in the periodic table, alternative and reacted with nitric acid to form an analytical techniques must be utilized. aqueous solution. The silver content of the solution is then quantified by neutron Chemical Engineering activation analysis. The silver values are used to back-calculate the amount of Krishnan Balakrishnan, under the aldehyde in the lubricant and thus the direction of Professor Johannes W. extent of degradation of the lubricant. Mr. Schwank, performed neutron activation Blame is working under the direction of analysis of platinum-tin bimetallic catalysts. Professor Phillip Savage. An alumina supported platinum-tin system is used in the petroleum industry as a Professor Scott Fogler of the Chemical reforming catalyst (i.e., in the production of Engineering Department is performing aromatic and cyclical hydrocarbon research on spent shale with a grant from compounds from a crude oil feed). The the Institute of Gas Technology. Spent relative amounts of platinum and tin can shale is a by-product of hydrocarbon affect the microstructure of the metal recovery from oil bearing shales. A part of particles in the catalyst, which in turn can Professor Fogler’s research is directed at influence the product distribution, stability, finding methods to neutralize the and activity of the system. A small amount environmental impact of heavy metals in of chlorine, which is always present in the spent shale. One method being studied is catalyst as a remnant of the preparation acid leaching of the shale to remove heavy procedure, can also alter the product metals for recovery or separate disposal. distribution towards isomeric compounds. Professor Fogler is using neutron Neutron activation analysis enables the activation analysis to help determine the determination of an accurate value of the effectiveness of the acid leaching process. bulk composition of the catalyst. This Samples of leaching solution are being information is crucial in the quantitative analyzed for barium and chromium, two of analysis of the various characterization the metals of most concern. techniques used to understand the catalyst mechanism. Also, it is of interest to Cistry compare the amount of these elements present in the bulk with that of surface Professor Adon A. Gordus and a compositions determined by other graduate student assistant, Steve Roeder, methods. utilizied neutron activation analysis for forensic studies related to criminal cases. Steven Blame, a graduate student in The objective of the studies is to detect the Chemical Engineering Department, is gunpowder residue on the hands of investigating reaction pathways in the individuals who are believed to have fired degradation of lubricants for his Ph.D. guns. Cotton swabs moistened with a few thesis. Mr. Blame is using the Nuclear drops of nitric acid are applied to a Reactor Laboratory’s neutron activation suspect’s hands. The swabs are irradiated analysis capabilities to assist in measuring in the reactor. Following a short irradiation,

10 they are analyzed for barium and the northern Appalachian mountains. He antimony, both of which are present in is particularly interested in the elements: gunpowder and would not normally be yttrium, vanadium, titanium, and zirconium. found on human skin in significant amounts. Chemical separation is utilized Professor Samuel B. Mukasa is to remove radioisotopes other than barium analyzing lava flows from Taiwan and the and antimony to improve levels of Philippine Islands using neutron activation detection. analysis. He is looking at trace elements, and particularly rare earth elements, to Mr. Roeder, a doctoral candidate in determine the originsof the lavas. chemistry again working with Professor Gordus, utilized neutron activation analysis Andrew Nyblade, a geological sciences to assist in the determination of chemical graduate student working for Professor compounds formed in a titanium Henry N. Pollack, is studying radiation tetrachloride (TiCI4) system that is induced heat generation in the South and subjected to intense gamma radiation in East African continent due to naturally the facility’s cobalt-60 irradiator. The occurring radioactive uranium, thorium, objective of the system is to convert potassium, and their daughter isotopes. titanium tetrachioride to titanium trichloride Radiation emanating from samples of from which intense chemical energy can igneous and metamorphosed igneous be produced, thereby utilizing low grade rocks is being measured using the gamma- radiation energy to produce high grade ray spectroscopy facilities of the Nuclear chemical energy. Elemental analysis Reactor Laboratory. The resulting gamma- assists in measuring the amount of ray spectra are being used to quantify the conversion that has taken place. concentrations of the radioisotopes. Mr. Nyblade’s samples were obtained from Professor Gordus used neutron surface outcrops and deep mines activation analysis to determine the yield of principally in Zimbabwe. alkali elements reduced from alkaline chloride solutions by gamma induced Students of Professor Eric J. Essene radiolysis. The research is directed at from Geology 455, Determinative Methods finding suitable compounds for direct in Mineralogical and Inorganic Materials, conversion of electromagnetic radiation visited the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory for (gamma radiation) into chemical potential an introduction to trace element analysis energy. using neutron activation analysis. The students were shown the theoretical basis Neutron activation analysis is of activation analysis. After the introductory performed routinely on metal rubbings from lecture, the laboratory’s sample analysis ancient and medieval coins by Professor equipment and facilities were Gordus to determine elemental content. demonstrated. This can provide information about the origin of the coins, the contained metals, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the cultures associated with them. Ms. Elizabeth Higashi is researching Geological Sciences the characteristics of conical glass vessels that were unearthed in Karanis, Egypt. Professor Ben A. Van Der Pluijm is These archaeological specimens were utilizing neutron activation analysis for excavated by University of Michigan elemental analysis of Paleozoic rock from Researchers in the 1920’s and 1930’s at

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