| Abstract: | Triple-filament analyses of three standard lead samples are used to calibrate a mass spectrometer in an absolute sense. The bias we measure is 0.0155 percent per mass unit, and the precision (for 95% confidence limits) is ??0.13% or less for all ratios relative to 204Pb. Although its precision is not quite so good as that of the lead-tetramethyl method in the analysis of large samples, the triple-filament method is less complex and is an attractive alternative for smaller sample sizes down to 500 ??g. Triple-filament data are presented for six possibly single-stage lead ores and one feldspar. These new data for ores are combined with corrected tetramethyl data for stratiform lead deposits to compute absolute parameters for a universal single-stage lead isotope growth curve. Absolute isotopic ratios for primeval lead have been determined by Oversby and because all the previous data for both meteorites and lead ores were similarly fractionated, the absolute value of 238U 204Pb = 9.09 ?? 0.06 for stratiform leads is little different from the value 8.99 ?? 0.05 originally computed by Ostic, Russell and Stanton. Absolute values for lead isotope ratios for all interlaboratory standard samples presently available from the literature are tabulated. ?? 1969. |
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| Citation Author: | Stacey, J. S.; Delevaux, M. E.; Ulrych, T. J. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Some triple-filament lead isotope ratio measurements and an absolute growth curve for single-stage leads; 1969; Article; Journal; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Stacey, J. S.; Delevaux, M. E.; Ulrych, T. J. |
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| Citation Year: | 1969 |
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| Text: | Some triple-filament lead isotope ratio measurements and an absolute growth curve for single-stage leads; 1969; Article; Journal; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Stacey, J. S.; Delevaux, M. E.; Ulrych, T. J. |
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| Date Other: | Wed, 1 Jan 1969 00:00 -0600 |
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