A modified procedure for gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometry: The long-integration dual-inlet (LIDI) methodology and implications for clumped isotope measurements

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1413-1425

  Hu, Bin ^a,b   Radke, Jens ^c   Schlüter, Hans Jürgen ^c   Heine, Frank Torsten ^c   Zhou, Liping ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; ION BEAMS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CLUMPED ISOTOPES; GAS SOURCES; ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS; ISOTOPE-RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; LONG INTEGRATIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; SAMPLE SIZES; SMALL SAMPLES; STABLE ISOTOPES; WORKING GAS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84901463509     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6909     Document Type: Article

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