Radiocarbon Dating with Tandem Electrostatic Accelerators
Issue Date
1980-01-01Keywords
tandem electrostatic acceleratorsinstruments
methods
C 14
carbon
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
absolute age
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Gove, H. E., Elmore, D., Ferraro, R. D., Beukens, R. P., Chang, K. H., Kilius, L. R., ... & Rubin, M. (1980). Radiocarbon dating with tandem electrostatic accelerators. Radiocarbon, 22(3), 785-793.Publisher
American Journal of ScienceJournal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the 10th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Bern, Switzerland and Heidelberg, Germany, August 19-26, 1979.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
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 lmg 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.Type
Proceedingstext