IAEA-RGK-1 was produced from high purity (99.8%) potassium sulphate supplied by the Merck Company. The property value assigned to the IAEA-RGK-1 Certified Reference Material was calculated as activity concentration, expressed in the derived SI unit Bq kg-1.
Certified values for activity concentration
(based on dry mass)
Radionuclide | Certified value [Bq kg-1] | Uncertainty (a) [Bq kg-1] | Half-life |
40K | 14180 | 160 | 1.2504 (30) x 109 years |
(a) The uncertainty is expressed as a combined standard uncertainty (coverage factor k=1)
Reference date for all specified radionuclide decay corrections: 01 June 2016