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Dalhousie University Natural Radiocarbon Measurements I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J Gordon Ogden III  and
W C Hart
J Gordon Ogden III
Affiliation:
Department of Biology Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
W C Hart
Affiliation:
Department of Biology Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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The Dalhousie University Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory was established in 1972, utilizing equipment and procedures formerly in use at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. The laboratory is located on the third floor of the 8-story Life Sciences Center at Dalhousie University. Sample preparation includes leaching with dilute alkali and acid, followed by pyrolysis in a stream of N2 at 500°C. Operating procedures remain essentially the same, utilizing reduction of acid or combustion generated CO2 to the counting gas, methane, over Ruthenium catalyst at 500°C. The flow reactor formerly used has been replaced by an in-line static reactor. Following gas purification and one month product gas storage to permit decay of Radon, samples are counted at 50 to 152cm pressure in either of 2 500ml detectors, or a 2L detector.

Type
Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1976 , pp. 43 - 49
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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