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National Physical Laboratory Radiocarbon Measurements IV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

W. J. Callow ,
M. J. Baker  and
Geraldine I. Hassall
W. J. Callow
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England
M. J. Baker
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England
Geraldine I. Hassall
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England
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The following list comprises measurements made since those reported in NPL III and is complete to the end of November 1965.

Ages are relative to A.D. 1950 and are calculated using a half-life of 5568 yr. The measurements, corrected for fractionation (quoted δC13 values are relative to the P.D.B. standard), are referred to 0.950 times the activity of the NBS oxalic acid as contemporary reference standard. The quoted uncertainty is one standard deviation derived from a proper combination of the parameter variances as described in detail in NPL III. These variances are those of the standard and background measurements over a rolling twenty week period, of the sample δC14 and δC13 measurements and of the de Vries effect (assumed to add an additional uncertainty equivalent to a standard deviation of 80 yr). Any uncertainty in the half-life has been excluded so that relative C14 ages may be correctly compared. Absolute age assessments, however, should be made using the accepted best value for the half-life and the appropriate uncertainty then included. If the net sample count rate is less than 4 times the standard error of the difference between the sample and background count rates, a lower limit to the age is reported corresponding to a net sample count rate of 4 times the standard error of this difference.

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Research Article
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Radiocarbon , Volume 8 , 1966 , pp. 340 - 347
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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