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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-149
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-149
29 Jan 2025
 | 29 Jan 2025
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Technical note: 21Ne in the CoQtz-N quartz standard material

Greg Balco

Abstract. Intercomparison standards produced from mineral samples exposed to the natural cosmic-ray flux are routinely used for interlaboratory comparison and normalization of measurements of the cosmogenic noble gases 3He and 21Ne. This effort is facilitated by availability of multiple standard materials with a wide range of cosmogenic-nuclide concentrations. The 'CoQtz-N' quartz standard, which was originally produced and distributed as an intercomparison standard for cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al, has a relatively low cosmogenic-nuclide concentration compared to other mineral standards used for cosmogenic noble gas analysis, and is therefore potentially useful for assessing linearity of interlaboratory offsets across a wide range of concentrations. This paper reports 21Ne analysis of 13 aliquots of CoQtz-N, interspersed with 14 aliquots of the commonly used CRONUS-A quartz standard, in three analytical sessions on two noble gas mass spectrometer systems. The excess 21Ne concentration in CoQtz-N, normalized to the accepted value of 320 x 106 atoms g-1 for CRONUS-A, is 13.87 ± 0.24 x 106 atoms g-1.

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This paper describes measurements of cosmogenic neon-21 concentrations in a widely distributed mineral standard material that is routinely used for quality control and interlaboratory comparison for measurements of other cosmic-ray-produced nuclides useful for various geochronology applications. Broadly, this facilitates improvement of precision and accuracy of these measurements and their applications in geochronology.
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