Robin,

You have backed into what I have been saying all along i.e. that there is way 
to little hydrogen available for a substantial part of what is reported not to 
be 13C... 

ie. the H:C ratio is 10:14 at best - but since in the table near the end of the 
experiment, he sees some methane, some CH3 and other aromatic compound which 
take away the small amount of H which is there at the beginning -- then the 
tiny amount of hydrogen left over is simply not enough to account for the fact 
that something like 10^20 atoms of 12C must have been converted to 13C.

Jones

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