Thank you all for sending me tips on H2 working standard. Those are great help. I have another question regarding H2 isotope analysis. I found a paper on new agent for water reduction by Prof. S. Halas in IAEA report (IAEA-TECDOC-825),entitled," Reference and intercomparison materials for stable isotopes of light elements". In his article, he recommend to use Mg-Pt instead of Zn and the agent gives us extraordianry precision of hydrogen isotope analysis, let's say, better than +/- 0.2 permil. Is somebody tried his method and get similar results? Are there any new water reduction technique instead of them? Thank you all in advance for your gread advice. Nori Tanaka Graduate School of Environmental Earth Sciences Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan