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Science 9 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4419, pp. 683 - 685
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4419.683
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Carbon-14 Dating of Small Samples by Proportional Counting

GARMAN HARBOTTLE 1, E. V. SAYRE 1, and R. W. STOENNER 1

1 Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

Conventional carbon-14 dating by means of gas proportional counters has been extended to samples containing as little as 10 milligrams of carbon. The accuracy of the dating procedure has been checked by dating sequoia tree-ring samples of the 1st century A.D. and B.C. and an oak tree-ring sample of the 19th century A.D.

Submitted on March 1, 1979
Revised on May 29, 1979

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