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THE radioisotope zinc-65 is often used as a tracer element for investigations of transport phenomena in metals. It is conveniently introduced by electroplating the zinc on to a cathode made of one of the components of the material to be investigated. Unfortunately, no simple and flexible plating procedure has yet been used for this work. Shirn, Wajda and Huntington1 developed the procedure used for their own self-diffusion studies, and Jaumot and Smith2 used the same procedure. However, this requires a rotating cathode, a zinc anode, and a relatively high concentration of zinc-65. Also, the plating efficiency is low—about 6 per cent.
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Jaumot, jun., F. E., and Smith, R. L., Trans. Amer. Inst. Min., Metall., Petrol. Eng., 206, 164 (1956).
Shteinberg, B., and Bogakovskii, N. A., Vestn. Mashinostr., 41, No. 8 41 (1962); Chem. Abstr. 2136d (1963).
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RIGNEY, D. Plating Radioactive Zinc-65. Nature 201, 1021 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011021a0
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