{"title":"Development of Cs separation methods from large amounts of soil samples to determine the 135Cs/137Cs isotope ratio","authors":"Asako Shimada, Takehiko Tsukahara, Masao Nomura, Seiji Takeda","doi":"10.1007/s10967-024-09749-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the <sup>135</sup>Cs and <sup>137</sup>Cs concentration level of environmental soil in prefectures adjacent to Fukushima is low at about 5.5 × 10<sup>−15</sup> − 6 × 10<sup>−13</sup> g g<sup>−1</sup>, a large amount of soil is required to obtain sufficient amount to measure them precisely. Two Cs separation methods which allow to treat large amounts of leached soil solution were developed: 1) A continuous butch extraction method using calix[4]arene-bis(t-octylbenzo-crown-6) and 2) A combination method of selective Cs adsorption using ammonium phosphotangstate and anion-cation exchange resins. These methods were applied to low Cs concentration samples, and good precision of 0.8–2.1% in the measurement of <sup>135</sup>Cs/<sup>137</sup>Cs isotope ratio was obtained.</p>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-024-09749-3","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Since the 135Cs and 137Cs concentration level of environmental soil in prefectures adjacent to Fukushima is low at about 5.5 × 10−15 − 6 × 10−13 g g−1, a large amount of soil is required to obtain sufficient amount to measure them precisely. Two Cs separation methods which allow to treat large amounts of leached soil solution were developed: 1) A continuous butch extraction method using calix[4]arene-bis(t-octylbenzo-crown-6) and 2) A combination method of selective Cs adsorption using ammonium phosphotangstate and anion-cation exchange resins. These methods were applied to low Cs concentration samples, and good precision of 0.8–2.1% in the measurement of 135Cs/137Cs isotope ratio was obtained.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
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