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FILTER paper is frequently used as a means of supporting radioactive substances, such as proteins or the effluent from a column, for counting in liquid scintillation counters. While this is satisfactory for most isotopes in common use, the efficiency of counting tritium is undesirably low, being a fraction of the efficiency obtainable with tritiated toluene. Glass fibre paper, however, has been found to allow a much higher counting efficiency, approaching the theoretical maximum.
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Pinter, K. G., Hamilton, J. G., and Miller, O. N., Anal. Biochem., 4, 458 (1963).
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GILL, D. Use of Glass Fibre Paper in Liquid Scintillation Counting. Nature 202, 626 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202626a0
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