• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.299-300
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• 2002

현재 우리가 살고 있는 지구에는 인공적 또는 자연적으로 생성된 많은 방사성 핵종이 혼재하고 있으며 인간은 이러한 자연환경에 항상 노출되어 있다. 우라늄(U)과 토륨(Th)은 자연계에 존재하는 $\alpha$입자를 방출하는 방사성 원소이며 이들의 연속적인 $\alpha$ 및 $\beta$붕괴에 의하여 많은 방사성 핵종이 생성된다. 특히 대기중이나 토양, 암석에 함유되어 있는 U-238은 자발 붕괴하여 라돈(Rn-222)이 되고 라돈에 의하여 생성된 딸 핵종들이 호흡을 통하여 흡수되어 방사선 피폭을 유발한다고 알려져 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.328-329
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• 2002

대기환경에 대한 정보의 파악은 환경연구의 기본이 된다. 유해원소 및 미량원소에 의한 환경오염과 그로 인한 인체건강에 대한 영향은 인간생활에 심각한 문제가 되므로 대기, 수질, 토양 등의 환경시료 중의 농도를 정확히 측정하는 것은 매우 중요한 일이다. 중성자방사화분석법은 핵반응을 통해 생성시킨 방사성동위원소로부터 방출되는 방사선론 검색하여 절대적으로 성분원소를 정량하는 핵분석기술(Nuclear Analytical Techniques)중의 하나로서 소량의 시료로부터 미소량원소의 비파괴, 동시다원소분석이 가능하고 분석감도가 탁월한 분석기술이다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.163-168
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• 1975

Rice and fish samples as well as a standard reference kale sample have been analyzed for the mercury content using two independent methods, i.e., one developed previously in this laboratory and the other reported by Sjostrand. The analytical results indicate differences in matrix effects depending on the type of sample, e.g., kale and fish samples show the same matrix effects, whereas rice samples show different effects compared to others.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.450-455
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• 1990

Fifty eight obsidian artifacts and four obsidian source samples have been analyzed by instrumental neutron activation analysis. Artifact samples have been classified into classes by unsupervised learning techniques such as eigenvector projection and nonlinear mapping. The source samples have thereafter been connected to the classes by the supervised learning techniques such as SLDA and SIMCA so as to characterize each class by possible source sites. Some difference attributable to different nonlinear mapping techniques and the elemental effects on the separation between classes have been discussed.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.241-246
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• 1985

Twenty trace elements were determined in 250 Korean potsherds and 5 clay samples by instrumental NAA. In the absence of identified samples of known origin, the potsherds were classified by a hierarchical centroid sorting method to construct a dendrogram. From this dendrogram 61 well-defined samples were selected to form 8 subclasses and five elements such as Cr, Cs, Sm, Sc and Th were supposed to be the main contributors for the classification. The 61 samples along with 5 clay samples were reclassified by means of minimal spanning tree as well as the hierarchical centroid sorting method by using 5 elements selected. As the results, the potsherds of certain classes defined in this work could be taken as a basis for latter identification and served as batches of identified species.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.555-566
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• 1987

Fifty ancient Korean coins originated in Yi Dynasty have been determined for 9 elements such as Sn, Fe, As, Ag, Co, Sb, Ir, Ru and Ni by instrumental neutron activation analysis and for 3 elements such as Cu, Pb, and Zn by atomic absorption spectrometry. Bronze coins originated in early days of the dynasty contain as major constituents Cu, Pb and Sn approximately in the ratio 90 : 4 : 3, whereas, those in latter days contain in ratio 7 : 2 : 0. Brass coins which had begun in 17 century contain as major constituents Cu, Zn and Pb approximately in the ratio 7 : 1 : 1. The multivariate data have been analyzed for the relation among elemental contents through the variance-covariance matrix. The data have been further analyzed by a principal component mapping method. As the results training set of 8 class have been chosen, based on the spread of sample points in an eigen vector plot and archaeological data such as age and the office of minting. The training set and test set of samples have finally been analyzed for the assignment to certain classes or outliers through the statistical isolinear multiple component analysis (SIMCA).

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.113-124
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• 1992

The pattern recognition methods of chemometrics have been applied to multivariate data, for which ninety four Korean ancient glass pieces have been determined for 12 elements by neutron activation analysis. For the purpose, principal component analysis and non-linear mapping have been used as the unsupervised learning methods. As the result, the glass samples have been classified into 6 classes. The SIMCA (statistical isolinear multiple component analysis), adopted as a supervised learning method, has been applied to the 6 training set and the test set. The results of the 6 training set were in accord with the results by principal component analysis and non-linear mapping. For test set, 17 of 33 samples were each allocated to one of the 6 training set.

• 보존과학연구
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• s.20
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• pp.91-120
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• 1999

This paper presents the results of investigation on crystal, firing temperature and trace elements analysis of fragments 4~8 centriesexcavated from Kyong ju historical sites such as Wang kyong,Walsung, Hwangnam great tomb by application of optical microscope, neutron activation analysis and X-ray diffraction. Temper analysis of clay for identification of local or foreign production; Trace elements is not presented a unique chemical composition. That’s data have to be treated a statistical process in order to normalize. The results followed ;(1) Firing temperature could be estimated $700^{\circ}C$ on some softness pottery at Walsung and most of hardness others are $1,000^{\circ}C$ to $1,200^{\circ}C$.(2) Crystal structures are divided into three kinds of mineralogical composition(Quartz, Mullite, Feldspar).(3) Considering of the results of statistical data, chemical composition of Walsung is more similarly Wang kyong than Hwangnam great tomb.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.317-324
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• 2014

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) samples were collected separately in mainstream and side-stream smoke using a self-designed smoking machine, and a total 40 of PM2.5 was collected with low volume air sampler at indoor environments with and without ETS in Daejeon, Korea. About 20 trace elements including toxic metals like As, Cr, Mn, Se, V, and Zn were determined in PM2.5 and ETS samples by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). It is found that the emission factors of K, Cl, Na, and Al were much higher than those of toxic elements for both mainstream and side-stream smoke. The average concentration of PM2.5 was enriched by 1.5 times at smoking area ($58.7{\pm}18.1{\mu}g/m^3$) than at smoking free area ($38.6{\pm}12.7{\mu}g/m^3$). The concentration ratio of each element between smoking and smoking free area were ranged from 1.1 to 6.0 except Cu (1.0); especially, Ce (6.0), La (5.2), K (2.3), and Co (2.0) showed higher ratio, which suggests that the ETS is one of the possible increasing factors of PM2.5 and elemental concentration at indoor environment.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.961-966
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• 1993

The determination of noble metals such as Ir, Au and Ag in the ancient coins has been studied. For the measurement of the activity of $^{192}Ir,\;^{198}Au\;and\;^{110m}Ag$, radiochemical separations including solvent extraction and ion-exchange chromatography were applied to reduce the interference of high energy ${\gamma}$-ray emitted from various radionuclides with long half-life. As a results, $10^{-11}$ g/g level of Ir could be detected and it was found that the three kinds of the detection limits, i.e., critical, detection, quantitative limit, calculated by the method proposed by Currie, were enhanced. Prior to the re-irradiation with neutron, inactive carrier was added in order to determine the recovery yield of Ir in the radiochemical separation. The average recovery yields of Ir, Au and Ag in the 5 coins were 65.3%, 98.5%, 99.5%, respectively.