A New Single Vacuum Furnace Design for Cosmogenic 3He Dating

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-129

  Zimmermann, Laurent ^a   Blard, Pierre Henri ^a   Burnard, Pete ^a   Medynski, Sarah ^a   Pik, Raphael ^a   Puchol, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

3He; Cosmogenic; Extraction; Mass spectrometry; Olivine; Purification; Pyroxene.; Ultra high vacuum furnace

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL CONDITIONS; CONVENTIONAL FURNACE; COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; EARTH'S SURFACE; EXTRACTION YIELD; HEATING TIME; HELIUM-3; HIGH PRODUCTION RATE; LOW DETECTION LIMIT; NEW HIGH; PYROXENE.; ROCK SAMPLE; SAMPLE EXTRACTION; TIME INTERVAL;

EXTRACTION; FURNACES; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIVINE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PURIFICATION; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM; VACUUM FURNACES;

HELIUM;

EID: 84863867055     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: 1751908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2011.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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