@article{oai:kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010113, author = {小村, 和久 and 井上, 睦夫 and Komura, Kazuhisa and Kuwahara, Y. and Abe, Takuya and Tanaka, K. and Murata, Yoshimasa and Inoue, Mutsuo}, issue = {2}, journal = {Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry}, month = {Aug}, note = {Extremely low activity levels of cosmic ray induced nuclides have been measured in freshly precipitated rainwater by quick chemical separation coupled with ultra low background gamma-spectrometry. The nuclides detected were 38S (T1/2 = 2.83 h)-38Cl (37.2 m), 39Cl (55.6 m), 24Na (14.96 h), 28Mg (20.9 h), 7Be (53.3 d) and 22Na (2.602 y). The number of atoms in rain water were evaluated to be ranging from 400-1900 l-1 for 39Cl (n = 6, mean: 1200), 30-1500 l-1 for 24Na (n = 16, mean: 520), 80-600 l-1 for 28Mg (n = 13, mean: 260), 1·106-4·107 l-17Be (n = 16, mean: 7·106) and 2·10 3-1·105 l-1 for 22Na (n = 9, mean: 2·104). Measurements of activity levels and activity ratios of short-lived cosmic-ray induced short-lived nuclides will open new method to understand atmospheric processes occurred at the altitude of rain cloud. © 2006 Akadémiai Kiadó., 金沢大学自然計測応用研究センター自然計測研究部門, 金沢大学理学部}, pages = {511--516}, title = {Measurements of short-lived cosmogenic nuclides in rain samples}, volume = {269}, year = {2006} }