Developments in radiocarbon technologies : from the Libby counter to compound-specific AMS analyses
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4363Abstract
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.
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Author Posting. © Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona, 2009. This article is posted here by permission of Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Radiocarbon 51 (2009): 45-78.