Principles and Applications of Liquid Scintillation Counting

scintillation of the phosphor, and, finally, the solvent must dissolve the phosphor to produce a stable, countable solution. Aromatic organics have proven to be the best solvents for LSC. The prototypical LSC solvent is toluene (The solvents used in National

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