Incertainties on lead isotope analyses: deconvolution in the double-spike method

Chemical Geology

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 95-104

  Powell, Roger ^a   Woodhead, Jon ^a   Hergt, Janet ^a  

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ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD;

EID: 0032486046     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00023-0     Document Type: Article

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