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Measurement of 14C Directly from CO2 Using a Tandetron Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G M Raisbeck ,
Françoise Yiou ,
Maurice Arnold  and
J C Duplessy
G M Raisbeck
Affiliation:
Laboratoire René Bernas, 91406 Orsay, France
Françoise Yiou
Affiliation:
Laboratoire René Bernas, 91406 Orsay, France
Maurice Arnold
Affiliation:
Laboratoire René Bernas, 91406 Orsay, France
J C Duplessy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire René Bernas, 91406 Orsay, France
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Abstract

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Tests have been carried out on the measurement of 14C directly from CO2, using a source designed by Middleton, and a Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometer system. These tests were very promising from the point of view of minimum quantity of carbon necessary (<50μg), but suffered from a background (apparently not memory effect) giving an equivalent age of ∼25,000 years. As a demonstration of the technique, a single thread from the mummy wrapping of the Egyptian king Ramses II was dated.

Type
I. AMS Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 211 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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