An investigation of a new method for potassiumargon age determination
Institution: | University of Hawaii |
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Degree: | PhD |
Year: | 1963 |
Keywords: | Potassium-argon dating |
Record ID: | 1558132 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11378 |
Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 107-113. viii, 114 l illus., diagrs., tables It was the object of this research to investigate the possibility of a new method for potassium-argon age determination based on isotope dilution with a radioactive isotope which would not necessarily require the use of a mass spectrometer. The diffusion of argon through artificial glasses was to be determined. Also a number of the assumptions regarding the operation of an ultra-high vacuum system when used statically as a part of the general apparatus for argon determination were to be investigated.