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First Status Report on Radiocarbon Sample Preparation Techniques at the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Carley A Crann Open the ORCID record for Carley A Crann [Opens in a new window] ,
Sarah Murseli ,
Gilles St-Jean ,
Xiaolei Zhao ,
Ian D Clark  and
William E Kieser
Carley A Crann*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Sarah Murseli
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Gilles St-Jean
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Xiaolei Zhao
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, and the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Ian D Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
William E Kieser
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, and the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

The A.E. Lalonde accelerator mass spectrometer (3MV, HVEE) was commissioned in early 2014 at the University of Ottawa (Canada). The radiocarbon sample preparation laboratory spent the better part of 2014 undertaking a quality control program, establishing pretreatment protocols, and streamlining sample processing. In the fall of 2014, the first unknown samples were accepted and in the first year of operation well over 1000 targets (~60% unknowns) were analyzed. Here, we present an overview of sample processing protocols and results from routinely measured standards, reference, and blank materials.

Keywords

radiocarbon sample preparationAMSFe-only blankstatus report
Type
Chemical Pretreatment Approaches
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Special Issue 3: Proceedings of the 22nd International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 2) , June 2017 , pp. 695 - 704
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© 2016 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Selected Papers from the 2015 Radiocarbon Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 16–20 November 2015

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