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Improved Tube Cracker for Opening Vacuum-Sealed Glass Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Glenn A Norton
Glenn A Norton*
Affiliation:
Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, Iowa State University, 276 Metals Development Building, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. Email: norton@ameslab.gov
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Abstract

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A variety of analytical procedures involve breaking open a glass or quartz vessel containing a gaseous sample, and then quantitatively collecting the sample gases for analysis. In order to do this, a variety of “tube crackers” have been used. This paper discusses an alternate tube cracker that offers numerous advantages over those that have been discussed previously in the literature.

Type
Technical Note
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , 2005 , pp. 177 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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