Dear Bernhard, Here are calculated reduced partition function ratios (RPFR) for siderite: 273.16 K ln(RPFR) = 0.11549 298.16 0.10072 373.16 0.06995 473.16 0.04659 573.16 0.03309 Source: Richard H. Becker(1971) , Ph D Thesis, The University of Chicago. You can combine these data with experimental values of RPFR for water to calculate fractionation factor. The most updated values for water you can find in paper by Horita and Wesolowski, GCA 1997+/-1. You can also find ln(RPFR) for water in Hattori K. and Halas S. (1982), GCA,pp. 1863-1868. Regards, Stan ============================== Professor Dr. Stanislaw Halas Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Maria Curie - Sklodowska University 20-031 Lublin, POLAND tel: (48 81) 537 6275 fax: (48 81) 533 3669