Instrument: Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer

Instrument Short Name: IR Mass Spec; IRMS
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB16/)
Instrument Description:

The Isotope-ratio Mass Spectrometer is a particular type of mass spectrometer used to measure the relative abundance of isotopes in a given sample (e.g. VG Prism II Isotope Ratio Mass-Spectrometer).

PI supplied instrument name: isotope ratio mass spectrometer
Dataset-specific description

May cohorts: Larval shell carbonate δ13C was measured by reacting the freeze-dried larvae with a viscous ~105% H3PO4 solution in a Finnigan MAT Kiel III at 70 degrees C for 5 minutes after which the isotopic composition of the evolved and purified CO2 was measured on a dual inlet mass spectrometer (MAT 252 IRMS). 

August cohorts: Samples were flash combusted at >1020 degrees C using a Carlo Erba NA1500 Elemental Analyzer (Verardo et al. 1990) and the resulting gas was analyzed by continuous-flow mass spectrometry using a DeltaPlus XL isotope ratio mass spectrometer.