Improved accuracy in high-temperature conversion elemental analyzer δ18O measurements of nitrogen-rich organics

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 554-562

  Hunsinger, Glendon B ^a,b   Stern, Libby A ^a  

^a FBI LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BENZOIC ACID; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ION SOURCES; ISOTOPES; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; MOLECULAR SIEVES; SODIUM AZIDE;

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; ELEMENTAL ANALYZERS; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; ISOBARIC INTERFERENCES; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETER; MEASUREMENTS OF; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC SUBSTRATE; ORGANICS; REDUCTION SYSTEMS;

NITROGEN;

EID: 84856763672     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6132     Document Type: Article

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