Tritium background water

["Erik C. Nielsen" <nielsenec@earthlink.net>]

At 04:53 PM 3/20/00 -0600, you wrote:

>I'm looking for some input on sources of "dead" water to use for tritium
>background samples. Finding an acceptable background sample for low-level
>counting has been problematic.

Oil well brine has always proved to be a reliable source of fossil ground 
water for me.   It is a bear to do the serial distillations to remove all 
the salt though.


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