Re: Tritium source needed

["J. Andrew Tompkins" <jatalbq@mindspring.com>]

What type of tritiated material are you trying to simulate on your filter
paper?  There are very few solid or liquid materials that elemental tritium
will not diffuse out of into your liquid cocktail.  There was a class of
tritiated polymers developed at PNL who's chemically bound T molecules were
supposed to be resistant to release of their tritium.  How long do you need
to retain the activity on the filter paper?

Andrew Tompkins
Woodstock, GA

jatalbq@mindspring.com

At 02:56 PM 8/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Here at CSU we need a tritium  source that can be loaded onto one side
>of a filter paper that then can be loaded into a liq. sint. vial for
>calabration of  my equipment. The problem is that all the H-3 standards
>that I have found are T2O form. Can any one reccomend a source of
>nonvolatile tritium.
>
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