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Precise 14C Measurement By Liquid Scintillation Counting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Gordon W Pearson
Gordon W Pearson*
Affiliation:
Palaeoecology Laboratory, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 INN, Northern Ireland
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Radiocarbon dating involves a comparison of the count rate of sample carbon with that of modern reference standard material. To calculate a date the ratio Z must be determined where

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Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 1979 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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