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IN the determination of the ages of rocks by the method of rubidium–strontium isotope dilution analysis, many laboratories have stored the standard rubidium chloride, strontium chloride and spike rubidium-87, strontium-85 solutions in polythene bottles. After keeping the bottles for several months discrepancies were found in standard and spike solutions, and it was thought that they might be accounted for by loss of water during storage. This communication describes some experiments to investigate this possibility.
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HAMILTON, E. Storage of Standard Solutions in Polythene Bottles. Nature 193, 200 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193200a0
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