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Prioritizing Safety, Advancing Efficiency: Developing a New Total Phosphorous Microwave Digestion Method for Sediment Core Nutrient Analysis
Published: 2024-09-26
Subjects: Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Soil Science
Long-term datasets are invaluable resources for understanding broad-level temporal patterns in ecosystems. For over two decades, UC Davis and Lake County Water Resources Department have collaborated on a long-term monitoring project of Clear Lake sediment nutrient concentrations, in an effort to better understand nutrient cycling in Clear Lake. When the need for a new total phosphorus digestion [...]
Isotopic composition (238U/235U) of some commonly used uranium reference materials
Published: 2017-11-05
Subjects: Chemistry, Cosmochemistry, Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
We have determined 238U/235U ratios for a suite of commonly used natural (CRM 112a, SRM 950a, and HU-1) and synthetic (IRMM 184 and CRM U500) uranium reference materials by thermal ionisation mass-spectrometry (TIMS) using the IRMM 3636 233U–236U double spike to accurately correct for mass fractionation. Total uncertainty on the 238U/235U determinations is estimated to be <0.02% (2σ). These [...]
238U/235U Systematics in Terrestrial Uranium-Bearing Minerals
Published: 2017-11-05
Subjects: Chemistry, Cosmochemistry, Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The present-day 238U/235U ratio has fundamental implications for uranium-lead geochronology and cosmochronology. A value of 137.88 has previously been considered invariant and has been used without uncertainty to calculate terrestrial mineral ages. We report high-precision 238U/235U measurements for a suite of uranium-bearing minerals from 58 samples representing a diverse range of lithologies. [...]