2002 年度 地球惑星科学専攻 修士論文要旨集
2003 年 2 月 3 日

氏名 工藤 新吾
論文題目 成層圏二酸化炭素に関する酸素の非質量依存同位体比異常の定量
Quantitative analysis of mass independent fractionation in oxygen isotopes of stratospheric carbon dioxide.
論文要旨 Carbon has two stable isotopes 12C and 13C, and oxygen has three stable isotopes 16O, 17O and 18O. This gives carbon dioxide major three kinds of the molecular weight ; 44, 45 and 46. In case we want to know how much 13C or 17O are included in a sampleCO2, we use mass spectrometer which can determine how much they are in by comparing the molecular weights. But if the samples are CO2, we canユt do it easily. Because 13C16O16O is identical with 12C16O17O in regard to mass. For this problem, an equation, δ 17O=0.516*δ18O, is substituted. A sample which hasnユt undergone photochemical reaction and is in the equilibrium state, the equation always comes into existence. (δ=(Rsamples/Rstandard-1)*1000, standard act as a scale of isotopes, R=(rA)/(pA), rA means rarer isotope and pA means principal isotope.)
But what should we do about CO2 the equation doesnユt work ?
Two Methods are suggested before. One is to convert CO2 to H2O with H2 and reduce it with F2 [Brenninkmeijer et al., 1998]. The other is to exchange oxygen in CO2 for oxygen in CeO2 [Assonov et al., 2001]. First is danger and troublesome in the respect that we should use F2. Second is very similar to our study. The most remarkable point of this method is we can adoptδ17O=0.516*δ18O after exchanging oxygen. Soδ13C, δ17O, δ18O is clear eventually.
Our purpose is to establish δ17O measurement by GC/C/IR mass spectrometer on this theory. The δ17O repeatability was ±1.05‰. With this method, we measured stratospheric CO2 and δ17O/δ18O of samples was 0.86.