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  • Böhlke, J.K., and Coplen, T.B., 1995, Interlaboratory comparison of reference materials for nitrogen-isotope-ratio measurements, in Reference and intercomparison materials for stable isotopes of light elements: Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TECDOC-825, p. 51-66.

  • Böhlke, J.K., Gwinn, C.J., and Coplen, T.B., 1993, New reference materials for nitrogen-isotope-ratio measurement: Geostandards Newsletter, v. 17, p. 159-164.

  • Böhlke, J. K., Mroczkowski, S. J., and Coplen, T. B., 2003, Oxygen isotopes in nitrate: new reference materials for 18O:17O:16O measurements and observations on nitrate-water equilibration: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, v. 17, p. 1835-1846.

  • Carmody, R.W., and Seal II, R.R., 1999, Evaluation of the sulfur isotopic composition and homogeneity of the Soufre de Lacq reference material: Chemical Geology, v. 153, p. 289-295. (on-line abstract)

  • Coplen, T.B., Brand, W.A., Gehre, M., Gröning, M., Meijer, H. A. J., Toman, B, and Verkouteren, R. M., in press, New guidelines for δ13C measurements: Analytical Chemistry.

  • Coplen, T. B., and Clayton, R. N., 1973, Hydrogen isotopic composition of NBS and IAEA stable isotope water reference samples: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 37, p. 2347-2349.

  • Coplen, T.B. and Hopple, J.A., 1995, Audit of VSMOW distributed by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Reference and intercomparison materials for stable isotopes of light elements: Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TECDOC-825, p. 35-38.

  • Coplen, T. B., Kendall, C., and Barnes, I. L., 1982, Comment on Two new carbonate stable isotope standards, by Irving Friedman, James O'Neil, and Gerald Cebula, 1982, (in Geostandards Newsletter, v. 6, p. 11-12): Geostandards Newsletter, v. 6, p. 257-258.

  • Coplen, T. B., and Kendall, C., 1982, Preparation and stable isotope determination of NBS-16 and NBS-17 carbon dioxide reference samples: Analytical Chemistry, v. 54, p. 2611-2612.

  • Coplen, T. B., Kendall, C., and Hopple, J., 1983, Intercomparison of stable isotope reference samples: Nature, v. 302, p. 236-238.

  • Qi, H., Coplen, T.B., Geilmann, H., Brand, W.A., and Böhlke, J.K., 2003, Two new organic reference materials for δ13C and δ15N measurements and a new value for the δ13C of NBS 22 oil: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, v. 17, p. 2483-2487.

  • Qi, H.P., and Coplen, Tyler B., 2003, Evaluation of the 34S/32S ratio of Soufre de Lacq elemental sulfur isotopic reference material by continuous flow isotope-ratio mass spectrometry: Chemical Geology, v. 199, p. 183-187. (on-line abstract)



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