The Half-Life of Radiocarbon (C14)
Abstract
The half-life of C14 has been found to be 5720+/-47 years by means of the use of mass spectrometrically analyzed C14O2 as a part of the counter gas in brass wall Geiger counters. Some of the problems of absolute β-counting with internal counters have been investigated, particularly the coincidence and end corrections.
- Publication:
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Physical Review
- Pub Date:
- June 1949
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRev.75.1825
- Bibcode:
- 1949PhRv...75.1825E