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Radiocarbon Dating Reproducibility at the Museo de La Plata Radiocarbon Laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Anibal Figini
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Tritio y Radiocarbono, LATYR, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Paseo del Bosque, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Roberto Huarte
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Tritio y Radiocarbono, LATYR, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Paseo del Bosque, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Jorge Carbonari
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Tritio y Radiocarbono, LATYR, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Paseo del Bosque, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
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Abstract

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We discuss here the variability, for our laboratory, in counting for radiocarbon dating of replicate measurements of background and secondary modern standard, duplicate measurements of samples provided by the International Collaborative Study, and replicate measurements of the dilution of the 14C-labeled benzene standard. The variability in the measurements of the International Collaborative Study samples suggest the existence of systematic bias.

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Session II
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