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The Republican scientific-technical conference "Radiation technologies and their applications" dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the great leader Heydar Aliyev's birth was held at the Institute of Radiation Problems (RPI) of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the end of the conference, academician Rasim Aliguliyev, vice-president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANSA), Nijat Mammadli, adviser to the Minister of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Nigar Aslanova, vice-rector of the Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction, and other guests got acquainted with the research conducted in the laboratories of RPI.

During the familiarization with the contributions of the "Historizing Archaeological Finds" group of the "Environmental Radiation Chemistry" laboratory, the leading scientific worker of the laboratory, candidate of chemical sciences, associate professor Sahib Mammadov, who gave information about the characteristics of modern devices and equipment, working principles and obtained results, said that currently research is being carried out using "Radiocarbon", "Electron paramagnetic resonance" and "Thermoluminescence" methods for radioisotope age determination. Answering numerous questions of the guests, S. Mammadov noted that at present, it is possible to determine the age of any archaeological object with an organic substance by the employees of the relevant laboratory of the Institute with the world's standard margin of error.

The guests highly appreciated the activity of the scientists of the institute.

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