Laser-based Isotope Ratio Analyzers: The Issues
• Isotope scale calibration, two point scale fixation and contraction/expansion
• Amount/concentration dependence
• Memory effects
• Matrix effects
• Water vapor measurements: calibration against liquid standard materials
• Intercomparison between instruments and laboratories (ring tests)!
• Trained operator? In isotope issues certainly, but what about the ‘black’
box?
• Supply of standard materials in a form adapted to laser instruments
• Sensitivity of the instruments – how much material is needed (nanomols?)
• Field applications, environmental impacts, temperature gradients and speed
of temperature changes, …
• Good laboratory practices, reporting uncertainties
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