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Standardization for oxygen isotope ratio measurement – still an unsolved problem
Author(s) -
Kornexl Barbara E.,
Werner Roland A.,
Gehre Matthias
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
rapid communications in mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1097-0231
pISSN - 0951-4198
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0231(19990715)13:13<1248::aid-rcm560>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - standardization , chemistry , calibration , pyrolysis , environmental chemistry , precipitation , analytical chemistry (journal) , meteorology , statistics , organic chemistry , law , physics , mathematics , political science
Abstract Numerous organic and inorganic laboratory standards were gathered from nine European and North American laboratories and were analyzed for their δ 18 O values with a new on‐line high temperature pyrolysis system that was calibrated using Vienna standard mean ocean water (VSMOW) and standard light Antartic precipitation (SLAP) internationally distributed reference water samples. Especially for organic materials, discrepancies between reported and measured values were high, ranging up to 2‰. The reasons for these discrepancies are discussed and the need for an exact and reliable calibration of existing reference materials, as well as for the establishment of additional organic and inorganic reference materials is stressed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.