Probing the <scp><sup>186</sup>Os</scp>/<scp><sup>188</sup>Os</scp> Precision Barrier: New Recommended Values for the <scp>DROsS</scp> Reference Material and an Assessment of Mixed 10<sup>11</sup> and 10<sup>12</sup> Ω Amplifier Arrays
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Abstract
We present high precision negative ion thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (N‐TIMS) Os isotope measurement results for the DROsS isotope reference material (iCRM), to investigate the limits on the precision of TIMS‐based 186 Os/ 188 Os results. We used analytical conditions previously highlighted to optimise precision, present a new flexible data processing protocol, and measured 184 Os intensities on a Faraday Cup equipped with an amplifier using a 10 12 Ω resistor. Despite a measurement procedure that minimised uncertainty contributions from counting statistics and Johnson‐Nyquist noise, the intermediate measurement precision of our approach does not significantly improve on previous high precision Os isotope measurements, with the exception of 184 Os/ 188 Os. This is probably due to uncertainties in measured amplifier gain factors, which are greater when using mixed arrays of 10 11 and 10 12 Ω resistors than when using 10 11 Ω resistors alone, though Faraday Cup deterioration could also contribute. We propose that multi‐dynamic Os isotope measurements could largely eliminate both of these uncertainties. Our 184 Os/ 188 Os measurement results are the most precise yet, yielding 184 Os/ 188 Os = 0.0013036 ± 0.0000007 (2 s , n = 38). Additionally, we average our data with published data to recommend the following isotope ratios for DROsS: 186 Os/ 188 Os = 0.1199319 ± 0.0000024, 187 Os/ 188 Os = 0.1609227 ± 0.0000022, 189 Os/ 188 Os = 1.219709 ± 0.000010, 190 Os/ 188 Os = 1.983793 ± 0.000011.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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