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Sources of Random Error in the Debrecen Radiocarbon Laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Ede Hertelendi
Ede Hertelendi*
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences PO Box 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
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Abstract

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A new high-pressure methane-filled counter system for 14C dating was installed in 1986 when the first stage of the International Collaborative Study (ICS) started. Random errors in the new measuring system and in the process of chemical pretreatment and preparation were checked during the three years of intercomparison. Results show that the most important source of error in our laboratory is gas contamination. This causes variation of the count rate to exceed the statistically expected variability. Other sources of error are also discussed and limits of their contributions are given.

Type
Session II
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 32 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intercomparison of Radiocarbon Laboratories , 1990 , pp. 283 - 287
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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