Distribution of platinum group elements and rhenium between metallic phases of iron meteorites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 147, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 11-24

  Hirata, Takafumi ^a,b   Nesbitt, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical fractionation; Inductively coupled plasma methods; Iron meteorites; Laser methods; Mass spectroscopy; Platinum group

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; ICP-MS; IRON METEORITE; PGE; RHENIUM;

EID: 0030826349     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00012-5     Document Type: Article

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