Instrument: Accelerator Mass Spectrometer

Acronym: AMS
Description:
Measures "long-lived radionuclides that occur naturally in our environment. AMS uses a particle accelerator in conjunction with ion sources, large magnets, and detectors to separate out interferences and count single atoms in the presence of 1x1015 (a thousand million million) stable atoms." AMS permits ultra low-level measurement of compound concentrations and isotope ratios that traditional alpha-spectrometry cannot provide. (http://www.physics.purdue.edu/primelab/introduction/ams.html)


Datasets associated with Accelerator Mass Spectrometer