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Offline Pjedi

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weighing stable isotopes using acurate balance
« on: December 15, 2012, 06:34:22 AM »
Hi, For a certain experiment I need to weigh enriched stable isotopes very accurately. Because of the high cost of this isotopes I can't take any bigger amount to weigh them accurately.

In my case, I need 4,173 mg of Ni 62 which is enriched for 98,2 %. I have trained to get the weight accurately using normal Ni and a satorius E2, which s able to measure weight accurately until 1 µg . So far the weight has an error for at least  10%.

Did anyone have the same problem? I would appreciate all kind of hints.




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Re: weighing stable isotopes using acurate balance
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2012, 07:09:26 AM »
In my case, I need 4,173 mg of Ni 62 which is enriched for 98,2 %. I have trained to get the weight accurately using normal Ni and a satorius E2, which s able to measure weight accurately until 1 µg . So far the weight has an error for at least  10%.

How did you measure / quantify this error?

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For a certain experiment I need to weigh enriched stable isotopes very accurately.

How accurately do you need to measure.
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Re: weighing stable isotopes using acurate balance
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2012, 04:47:01 AM »




In my case, I need 4,173 mg of Ni 62 which is enriched for 98,2 %. I have trained to get the weight accurately using normal Ni and a satorius E2, which s able to measure weight accurately until 1 µg . So far the weight has an error for at least  10%.

How did you measure / quantify this error?

I just picked some natural abundant Ni and some weighing scales and started repeating the same experiment 5 times.

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For a certain experiment I need to weigh enriched stable isotopes very accurately.

How accurately do you need to measure.

I want error below 2%

Offline JGK

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Re: weighing stable isotopes using acurate balance
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2012, 03:02:42 PM »
For that level of accuracy you will need a 6 decimal place balance (Sartorius ME36 or equivalent)
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