Carbon-14 Dating with the Liquid Scintillation Counter: Total Synthesis of the Benzene Solvent
Abstract
Samples are analyzed for natural radiocarbon content by a total synthesis of benzene from their organic constituents. The benzene is employed as the solvent in a liquid scintillation counter. The instrument used permits 15 grams of carbon to be counted with an efficiency of 40 percent and a background of 13 counts per minute.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1960
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.132.3428.668
- Bibcode:
- 1960Sci...132..668T