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Laboratory is used primarily to provide radiocarbon measurements.
Radiocarbon is well known for its use in age dating of many kinds of materials. The method is applicable to almost any carbonaceous material which formed in the last 50,000 years. AMS allows us to date extremely small samples of a few hundred micrograms of carbon. Since the advent of AMS in 1979, radiocarbon has also been used as a tracer isotope to study the sources and pathways of carbon in nature. These tracer studies have been applied to everything from CO2 exchange between the oceans and atmosphere to the identification of carbon from Martian meteorites.