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Optical Measurement of Radiocarbon Below Unity Fraction Modern by Linear Absorption Spectroscopy

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Author(s)

Adam J. Fleisher, David A. Long, Qingnan Liu, Lyn Gameson, Joseph T. Hodges

Abstract

High-precision measurements of radiocarbon (14C) near or below a fraction modern 14C of one (F14C ≤ 1) are costly, requiring the shipment of samples to accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) facilities that specialize in reporting rare isotope relative abundances. An accurate, ultra-sensitive linear absorption spectroscopy approach to detecting 14C would provide a simple and robust table-top alternative to off-site AMS facilities. Here we report the quantitative measurement of 14C in gas-phase samples of CO2 with F14C
Citation
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume
8
Pub Type
Journals

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs/jpclett.7b02105
Molecular characterization and Spectroscopy

Citation

Fleisher, A. , Long, D. , Liu, Q. , Gameson, L. and Hodges, J. (2017), Optical Measurement of Radiocarbon Below Unity Fraction Modern by Linear Absorption Spectroscopy, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1021/acs/jpclett.7b02105 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created September 7, 2017, Updated November 10, 2018
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