BS EN ISO 13162:2015

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Water quality. Determination of carbon 14 activity. Liquid scintillation counting method

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Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

30-06-2021

Language(s)

English

Published date

31-08-2015

Publisher

British Standards Institution

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Symbols, definitions, units, and abbreviations
4 Principle
5 Reagents and equipment
6 Sampling and samples
7 Procedure
8 Expression of results
9 Test report
Annex A (informative) - Numerical applications
Annex B (informative) - Internal standard method
Annex C (informative) - Extraction of total carbon:
precipitate counting
Annex D (informative) - Extraction of total carbon:
absorption counting
Bibliography

Defines the conditions for the determination of [14]C activity concentration in samples of environmental water or of [14]C-containing water using liquid scintillation counting.

ISO 13162:2011 specifies the conditions for the determination of 14C activity concentration in samples of environmental water or of 14C-containing water using liquid scintillation counting. The method is applicable to the analysis of any organic molecule soluble in water that is well mixed with the scintillation cocktail. It does not apply to micelles or \'large\' particles (lipids, fulvic acid, humic acid, etc.) that are inadequately mixed with the scintillation cocktail and the water. Some beta energy is lost without any excitation of the scintillation cocktail and the results are underestimated. The method is not applicable to the analysis of organically bound 14C, whose determination requires additional chemical processing (such as chemical oxidation, combustion). It is possible to determine 14C activity concentrations below 106 Bq l-1 without any sample dilution.

Committee	EH/3
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	32
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Superseded
SupersededBy	BS EN ISO 13162:2021

Standards	Relationship
ISO 13162:2011	Identical
EN ISO 13162:2015	Identical

ISO/IEC 17025:2005	General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
ISO 5667-3:2012	Water quality Sampling Part 3: Preservation and handling of water samples
ISO 5667-1:2006	Water quality Sampling Part 1: Guidance on the design of sampling programmes and sampling techniques
ISO 11929:2010	Determination of the characteristic limits (decision threshold, detection limit and limits of the confidence interval) for measurements of ionizing radiation Fundamentals and application
ISO/IEC Guide 98-3:2008	Uncertainty of measurement — Part 3: Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM:1995)
ISO 80000-10:2009	Quantities and units Part 10: Atomic and nuclear physics

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BS EN ISO 13162:2015

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