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Neutron activation analysis

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Neutron activation analyis was first proposed as an analytical technique by von Hevesy and Levi in 1936. However, its successful application to geology (Gordon et al., 1968; Hertogen and Gijbels, 1971) had to await the commercial development of high-resolution germanium detectors during the 1960s to allow satisfactory analysis of the complex gamma spectra obtained from irradiated silicate rock samples.

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