Helium, neon, and argon abundances in the solar wind: In vacuo etching of meteoritic iron-nickel

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1303-1314

  Murer, Christoph A ^a   Baur, Heinrich ^a   Signer, Peter ^a   Wieler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CHONDRITE H; ETCHING; HELIUM; METEORITE; NEON; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0030821613     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)83772-6     Document Type: Article

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