Long-term performance of simultaneous measurement of stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon in cellulose with a high-temperature pyrolysis/gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry system at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research

Kern, Zoltán and Llanos Campana, Daniela Maria and Hegyi, István Norbert (2022) Long-term performance of simultaneous measurement of stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon in cellulose with a high-temperature pyrolysis/gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry system at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research. CENTRAL EUROPEAN GEOLOGY, 65 (2). pp. 137-143. ISSN 1788-2281

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Abstract

A high-temperature pyrolysis/gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry system was established at the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research in 2013. A dedicated field of application of the system is the simultaneous measurement of stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in the cellulose of modern, relict and subfossil plant tissues and sediments. The measurement protocol was fine-tuned during the first year of operation and documented in detail in this report. To quantify the long-term reproducibility of the simultaneous measurement of stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon in cellulose, a 2σ range inferred from repeated measurements of a Quality Assurance standard can be recommended: 0.16 and 0.20‰, for δ 13 C and δ 18 O, respectively. An extensive set of samples with known pyrolysis-based δ 13 C data was analyzed in combustion mode and the paired results were used to assess the necessity of adjustment of the pyrolysis-based δ 13 C measurements. The variances of the two datasets were not significantly different; the slope (intercept) of the regression was indistinguishable from unity (zero), suggesting that probably owing to the relatively frequent cleaning of the pyrolysis furnace, pyrolysis-based δ 13 C data neither suffer from a variance bias nor require a specific adjustment.

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