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Scintillation Techniques for the Detection of Natural Radiocarbon

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THE development of liquid scintillators of high pulse-height efficiency has made possible a new technique for the determination of natural radiocarbon. If the carbon content of the sample can be incorporated into a liquid scintillator, a detector of high sensitivity and excellent geometry is inherently present, and the detector volume is reduced considerably in comparison with that of the screen-wall counter1, thus lowering the background counting-rate. The synthesis of a suitable compound which can function directly as solvent or diluent is necessary for this method.

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  1. Department of chemistry,

    B. L. FUNT & S. SOBERING

  2. Department of Physics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

    R. W. PRINGLE & W. TURCHINETZ

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FUNT, B., SOBERING, S., PRINGLE, R. et al. Scintillation Techniques for the Detection of Natural Radiocarbon. Nature 175, 1042–1043 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1751042a0

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