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Development of a Combustion System for Liquid or Gas Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J H Park  and
C S Lee
J H Park
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, South Korea.
C S Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, South Korea.
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While it is customary to use solid samples for measuring the 14C/12C ratio, it is sometimes necessary to handle liquid or gas samples. Motivated by a scientific purpose to count radiocarbon yields in deuterated acetone irradiated with energetic neutrons, we developed a new combustion system to treat liquid or gas samples. In contrast with the typical combustion system using CuO for solid samples, the new combustion system uses high-purity O2 (99.999%) gas. As an initial investigation, we combusted deuterated acetone (acetone-d6, certified 100.0 atm % D) to make CO2 under the ambient O2 pressure. The resulting CO2 gas then went through the reduction process to form graphite for further accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurement.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 141 - 145
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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