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Science 2 August 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3840, pp. 464 - 465
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3840.464
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Tritium Enrichment by Gas-Solid Chromatography: Technique for Low-Level Analysis

John E. Hoy 1

1 Savannah River Laboratory, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Aiken, South Carolina 29801

A palladium chromatograph was developed that can detect less than 10 atoms of tritium per 1018 atoms of hydrogen. Columns operated at ambient temperature have 70-liter hydrogen capacity (50-milliliter water sample) and give 60 percent recovery in the first 500 cubic centimeters of gas evolved.

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