Compagnie Generale Des Matieres Nucleaires

Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Compagnie Oris Industrie

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Thierry Davin

Gerard Mathis

Dominique Pouyat

Alastair Magnaldo

Christophe Bouzon

Marie-Hélène Noire

Gilbert Benony

The invention concerns the production of a chemical sensor which can be used to measure nitric acidity. This sensor is produced using a sol-gel method for depositing a porous film, containing a colored indicator, on the core of an optic fiber. The pH of the initial sol is adjusted as are other conditions for implementing the sol-gel method to obtain stability of the signal (curvesto) emitted by the sensor in an 8N nitric medium for at least 1000 hours.

Method for making an optical fiber chemical sensor comprising a colored indicator, useful in particular for measuring nitric acid

An apparatus for the analysis of a solution by X-ray fluorescence. This apparatus includes means (12, 14) for the excitation and analysis of the solution, means (4) for receiving the solution and an element (6) integral with the receiving means and positioned opposite an area of the receiving means which is transparent to the X-radiation, the element when it is excited, emitting an X-radiation distinct from that emitted by the solution, which allows any measurement drift that is liable to occur to be corrected during the analysis. Application to the analysis of solutions containing actinides.

Apparatus for the analysis of a solution by X-ray fluorescence

The present invention relates to a homogeneous process for the detection and/or determination of an analyte in a medium in which it may be present, by disclosing the reaction product of the analyte and a corresponding receptor, process consisting in: 1) adding to said medium a first reagent consisting of a receptor for the said analyte; 2) adding a second reagent consisting of at least one of the components of the reaction product of the analyte and at least one of its receptors; one of the two reagents being coupled with a luminescent compound and the other reagent possessing a heavy atom or units containing a heavy atom; 3) incubating the medium after addition of each reagent or after the addition of both reagents; 4) exciting the resulting medium and 5) measuring at equilibrium or during the kinetics, the signal emitted by the luminescent compound, said signal being modulated by the heavy atom effect.

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