Kim, For NBS-127 d18O = +9.3%o vs. VSMOW was used in laboratories by far, but with advent of on-line technique it was found that this value is ca. 0.5%o too high, see eg. Boschetti & Iacumin, Rapid Comm. in MS, 2005, vol.19, pp.3007-3014. Other 2 reference materials are IAEA SO-5 and SO-6 calibrated on-line, see Bohlke, Mroczkowsi and Coplen, ibid. 3003, vol. 17, pp. 1835-1846. Soon my lab will finish their calibration by off-line approach. Stan At 15:30 06-05-24 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >Given that sulfate oxygen has been mentioned lately, I too have a question. > >We have recently been looking at sulfate oxygens and are wondering if >there a recognized oxygen value for the sulfate standard NBS127? > >Also, what other standards exist if any for sulfate oxygen? > >Thanks >Kim > > >Kim Baublys >Stable Isotope Laboratories >Department Of Earth Sciences >University of Queensland 4072 >Australia > >Ph: +61 7 3365 1131 >Fax: +61 7 3365 1277 >http://www.uq.edu.au/geochem/ Dr. Stanislaw Halas Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Institute of Physics, UMCS 20-031 Lublin, Poland phone: +48 81 537-62-75 fax: +48 81 533-36-69