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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2008.13.4.348

Improvement of Oxygen Isotope Analysis in Seawater samples with Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer  

Park, Mi-Kyung (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University)
Kang, Dong-Jin (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University)
Kim, Kyung-Ryul (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.13, no.4, 2008 , pp. 348-353 More about this Journal
Abstract
Oxygen isotope has not been used actively in water mass studies because of difficulties on the analysis though it has advantages as a water mass tracer. The most popular method to analysis the oxygen isotope ratio in water samples is equilibration method: isotopic equilibrium of water with $CO_2$ at constant temperature. The precision of oxygen isotope analysis using commercial automatic $H_2O/CO_2$ equilibrator is ${\pm}0.1%o$. This value is not sufficient for studies in open ocean. The object of this study is to improve the analytical precision enough to apply open ocean studies by modification of the instrument. When sample gas is transferred by the pressure difference, the fractionation which is preferential transportation of light isotope can be occurred since the long transportation path between the equilibrator and mass spectrometer. And the The biggest source of error during the analysis is long distance and large volume of the pathway of sample gas between. Therefore, liquid nitrogen trap and high vacuum system are introduced to the system. The precisions of 14 time analysis of same seawater sample are ${\pm}0.081%o$ and ${\pm}0.021%o$ by built-in system and by modified system in this study, respectively.
Keywords
Oxygen Isotope; Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer; Seawater;
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