Single-and double-charged 232 Th and 229 Th ions were produced by laser ablation of solid-state thorium compounds and by inductively coupled plasma techniques with mass-spectrometry analysis from liquid solutions of thorium. The latter method was found to be more applicable for producing ions of radioactive 229 Th for laser experiments when searching for the energy value of the isomeric nuclear transition.
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