(Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 2009-05)
Povinec, Pavel P.; Litherland, A. E.; von Reden, Karl F.
We review developments in radiocarbon measuring techniques from the Libby counter through proportional
gas counters and liquid scintillation spectrometers to the more recent developments of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS),
followed by a coupling of gas chromatography with AMS for compound-specific 14C analyses. While during the first 60 yr
of 14C measurements beta counting, specifically gas counting, was the dominant technique, in the future of 14C science AMS
will be the dominant technology.
