Accelerator mass spectrometry


a type of m-ss spectrometry used in radiocarbon dating in which the proportion of carbon isotopes is counted directly, as contrasted with the indirect geiger counter method, using an accelerator that drastically reduces the quant-ty of datable material required.

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