CONTENTS
[INTRODUCTION] 4 [WHAT IS NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS?] 5 [THE SENSITIVITY OF NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS] 10 [HOW AND WHERE TO USE IT] 19 [In a Physics Laboratory] 19 [In a Hospital] 28 [In a Plastics Plant] 32 [In a Museum] 35 [In a Criminology Laboratory] 42 [SUMMING UP: WHAT LIES AHEAD] 46 [APPENDIX] 49 [READING LIST] 52 [MOTION PICTURES] 54
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1972
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A 19th century photograph restored by neutron activation. This picture, which is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, was exposed to neutrons in a nuclear reactor and then placed in contact with modern photographic film. The original, which had been taken by William Henry Fox Talbot who began his career in 1834, is badly faded.