Updates to instrumentation and protocols for isotopic analysis of nitrate by the denitrifier method
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry2016Vol. 30(12), pp. 1365–1383
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Abstract
The new instrumentation and protocols yield nitrate isotopic data with external precision of ≤0.1‰ for large sample sets such as those derived from oceanographic sections. Further study should investigate the causes of (1) the weak dependence of nitrate δ(18) O values on nitrate concentration and (2) the inter-batch variation in the δ(18) O contraction (due mostly to oxygen atom exchange with water). Nevertheless, comprehensive correction schemes are in place for the measurement of both the δ(15) N and δ(18) O values of nitrate. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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