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A modified procedure for determining [ 14 C]CO 2 produced by respiration in water or sediment samples 1
Author(s) -
Brown Keith A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1979.24.6.1141
Subject(s) - ethanolamine , respiration , solubility , sediment , chemistry , liquid scintillation counting , carbon 14 , environmental chemistry , radiochemistry , nuclear chemistry , organic chemistry , geology , botany , physics , biology , nuclear physics , paleontology
Poor recovery of radioactivity when determining [ 14 C]CO 2 respired by microbes can be overcome by substituting 2‐ethanolamine for 2‐phenylethylamine to absorb [ 14 C]CO 2 and by increasing the solubility of absorbed [ 4 C]CO 2 in the scintillation solution with 2‐ethoxyethanol.