Dear List Members, Reading the interesting infos about NBS-19 and other calcites I wonder if anybody can give me information on the source of NIST SRM915a. This is the official standard for calcium isotopes. Details on the chemical composition are available from NIST, but there is no information what material it is made from (limestone, marble, etc.). It has a very low 44Ca/40Ca composition for a limestone. Florian Boehm *************************************************** Florian Boehm Leibniz-Institut f. Meereswissenschaften, IfM-GEOMAR FB 2, Marine Biogeochemie/Ostufer Wischhofstr. 1-3, D-24148 Kiel Germany email: [log in to unmask] http://www.geomar.de/~fboehm/ Tel.: (49)431-600-2104 ***************************************************