Re: K-40 source

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 10:25 03.02.2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I have a colleague that is interested in a K-40 source.  He hasn't had much
>luck finding one, does anyone have any suggestions?  

????????

Any potassium salt will contain K-40 in its natural abundance. Does your
collegue want to have carrier free K-40? What for? I would believe that he
would have to apply rather costly isotopic separation techniques than any
neutron irradiation.

Franz


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