From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry presents a fascinating account of a breakthrough in science and the insights it has brought that would not have been possible without it. Involved since its invention, Harry Gove recounts the story of the development of accelerator mass spectrometry and its use as an ultrasensitive detection technique in many fields of science and the arts. A key advantage of the technique is that it requires only very small samples of material. The book explores the areas where the technique has increased understanding and provided solutions to problems, including the clean-up and storage of nuclear waste, the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, biomedical research, the settling of the Americas, and carbon dating of many precious artifacts. Objects dated include the Turin Shroud, the Iceman, the elephant bird egg, and the Dead Sea scrolls.
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stable carbon ratio, decay counting method, old ground water, mass energy product, carbon dating laboratories, shroud samples, cosmogenic radioisotope, bomb pulse, neutral injection, tandem electrostatic accelerators, stable isobar, date the shroud, analysing magnet, accelerator mass spectrometry, chlorine ratio, calibrated years, nuclear physics research, acceleration tube, tandem accelerators, dating laboratory, fuel pools, milligram sample, radiocarbon measurements, radiocarbon dating, terminal voltage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Turin Shroud, Van de Graaff, University of Rochester, North America, University of Arizona, Chalk River, United States, British Museum, Dead Sea, University of Toronto, Front Hiroshima, Monte Verde, New Mexico, West Valley, New York Times, Archbishop of Turin, University of California, British Columbia, Yucca Mountain, Columbia River, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, American Indians, Willard Libby, American Physical Society, Oxford University New!
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stable carbon ratio, decay counting method, old ground water, mass energy product, carbon dating laboratories, shroud samples, cosmogenic radioisotope, bomb pulse, neutral injection, tandem electrostatic accelerators, stable isobar, date the shroud, analysing magnet, accelerator mass spectrometry, chlorine ratio, calibrated years, nuclear physics research, acceleration tube, tandem accelerators, dating laboratory, fuel pools, milligram sample, radiocarbon measurements, radiocarbon dating, terminal voltage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Turin Shroud, Van de Graaff, University of Rochester, North America, University of Arizona, Chalk River, United States, British Museum, Dead Sea, University of Toronto, Front Hiroshima, Monte Verde, New Mexico, West Valley, New York Times, Archbishop of Turin, University of California, British Columbia, Yucca Mountain, Columbia River, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, American Indians, Willard Libby, American Physical Society, Oxford University New!
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- Atomic Energy (Merit badge series) by Boy Scouts of America on page 40, page 128, and page 130
- Mass Spectrometry: Analytical Chemistry by Open Learning by Reg Davis on page 112, and Back Matter
- University of Pennsylvania: Off the Record (College Prowler) (College Prowler: University of Pennsylvania Off the Record) by Jennifer Klein in Front Matter
- Ice Age (Essential Guide) by Glenn Dakin in Back Matter
- Life in the Sea - Pacific Ocean by Leighton Taylor on page 100
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- Advances in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 16: Plenary and Keynote Lectures of the 16th International Mass Sepctrometry Conference by Gareth A.G. Brenton on page 120
- Mass Spectrometry: A Foundation Course by K. Downard in Back Matter
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