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Geological Institute Radiocarbon Dates I∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

V. V. Cherdyntsev
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR
V. A. Alekseyev
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR
N. V. Kind
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR
V. S. Forova
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR
L. D. Sulerzhitskiy
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR
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We used the scintillation variant of the radiocarbon method. The scintillator is prepared on the basis of ethylbenzol [benzene], synthesized from acetylene according to the method of Kuchkarev and Kondratenko (1955). For radiocarbon dating we used materials both rich in carbon: wood and charcoal, and [those] poorer: also peat, buried soils, and fossil bones. In the first instance, the initial material for synthesis was [char] coal, which was treated as follows:

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