V. B. Vykhodets, T. E. Kurennykh, A. Yu. Nikolaev, A. V. Suzdaltsev, Yu. P. Zaikov

DETERMINATION OF LITHIUM CONTENT IN SOLIDS BY NUCLEAR REACTION TECHNIQUE

The acceleration method of nuclear reactions is used to measure the content of lithium and oxygen in zirconium oxides. The purpose of the study stems from the fact that there are no direct methods for determining lithium concentration in solids, while lithium is currently widely used for alloying alloys in aircraft construction, nuclear power engineering, electrochemical devices, and other fields of technology. It is shown that satisfactory metrological characteristics of the method are provided when using the ⁶Li(d, p0)⁷Li and ⁷Li(d, p)⁸Li reactions at a deuteron energy of 650 keV.

Acknowledgment: The research was carried out within the state assignment from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme Function, No. АААА-А19-119012990095-0)

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