Author:
Raisbeck G M,Yiou Françoise,Arnold Maurice,Duplessy J C
Abstract
Tests have been carried out on the measurement of 14C directly from CO2, using a source designed by Middleton, and a Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometer system. These tests were very promising from the point of view of minimum quantity of carbon necessary (<50μg), but suffered from a background (apparently not memory effect) giving an equivalent age of ∼25,000 years. As a demonstration of the technique, a single thread from the mummy wrapping of the Egyptian king Ramses II was dated.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Archeology
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