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PREVIOUS work on strontium estimation in biological material has involved the use of optical emission spectroscopy1 and name spectrophotometry2, both of which suffer from the disadvantage that the sample is destroyed during the analysis. This can be a significant factor when, in the interest of precision, the analysis must be repeated several times on each sample, when the quantity of material from any particular region of a bone is small, or when the sample is to be used for radiometric estimation of strontium-90.
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ROBERTS, W. Estimation of Strontium in Animal Bone using X-ray Fluorescence Analysis. Nature 183, 887–888 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183887a0
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