Acidification of a solid sample to separate inorganic carbon (IC) from organic carbon (OC) is a widely encountered procedure in limnology and oceanography. Traditionally, OC was isolated to determine the weight-% of OC (%OC), but it is becoming increasingly common to determine the isotopic signatures of the OC (δ 13
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