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Radiocarbon Dating with Tandem Electrostatic Accelerators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

H E Gove,
David Elmore,
R D Ferraro,
R P Beukens,
K H Chang,
L R Kilius,
H W Lee,
A E Litherland,
K H Purser and
Meyer Rubin
H E Gove
Affiliation:
Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
David Elmore
Affiliation:
Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
R D Ferraro
Affiliation:
Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
R P Beukens
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7
K H Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7
L R Kilius
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7
H W Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7
A E Litherland
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7
K H Purser
Affiliation:
General Ionex Corporation, 19 Graf Road, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950
Meyer Rubin
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 20922
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An MP tandem Van de Graaff accelerator at the University of Rochester has been employed since May 1977 to detect 14C in various terrestrial samples. The carbon sample sizes required are 1mg or less. Dating accuracies based on reproducibility now approach (± 80 years). Measurements have been made on 1850 wood, Australian sucrose, a carbon sample from Mt Shasta, a baby woolly mammoth, and an Egyptian bull mummy wrapping.

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Type
Accelerator Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Heidelberg , 1980, pp. 785 - 793
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science

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