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Sampling and Pretreatment of Tooth Enamel Carbonate for Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis
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Radiocarbon: analysis of inorganic carbon of fossil bone and enamel

V Haynes

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |August 16, 1968
    PubMed

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