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Radiocarbon Dating With the Quantulus in an Underground Counting Laboratory: Performance and Background Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Robert M Kalin  and
Austin Long
Robert M Kalin
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Environmental Radioisotope Center University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
Austin Long
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Environmental Radioisotope Center University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Abstract

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The University of Arizona Radiocarbon Laboratory purchased a state-of-the-art LKB Quantulus LSC and placed it into a new underground counting chamber. We have investigated the performance of the Quantulus in this setting comparing different vial types, checking background sources and experimenting with sample size.

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Type
I. Sample Preparation and Measurement Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 359 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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