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Detection of Bias in the Background of Vials Used for Radiocarbon Dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Janet Ambers ,
Morven Leese  and
Sheridan Bowman
Janet Ambers
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG
Morven Leese
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG
Sheridan Bowman
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG
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Abstract

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Inter-vial variation in background of the glass vials used in liquid scintillation counting can introduce appreciable errors into 14C measurements. Our aim was to measure the background in each of 50 glass vials, under the same conditions as far as possible, in order to find a self-consistent set for use in 14C dating. The criteria, statistical tests, and possible errors introduced by not making such checks are discussed.

Type
V. Conventional Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 586 - 591
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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