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Instruments and Methods for Measuring 14С (a Review)

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The main methods for measuring 14C based on a Libby counter, a proportional gas-filled counter, liquid scintillation counting, and accelerator mass spectrometry are considered. The measurement features, advantages, and disadvantages of each presented method are described. The radiocarbon concentration in annual rings of a pine tree grown in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk has been measured using the accelerator mass spectrometry method. The measured 14C concentration in the samples is in the range from 95.4 ± 0.2 to 191.5 ± 2.2 pMC.

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We are grateful to E.E. Vorob’eva for her help in preparing wood samples.

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  1. Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, 620002, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    E. I. Nazarov & A. V. Kruzhalov

  2. Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 620219, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    A. A. Ekidin & M. E. Vasyanovich

  3. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    V. V. Parkhomchuk & S. A. Rastigeev

  4. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

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  5. Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    E. V. Parkhomchuk

  6. Novosibirsk State University, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    E. V. Parkhomchuk

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Nazarov, E.I., Kruzhalov, A.V., Ekidin, A.A. et al. Instruments and Methods for Measuring 14С (a Review). Instrum Exp Tech 64, 790–795 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441221060166

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