Nitrogen components in primitive ordinary chondrites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 463-482

  Sugiura, N ^a   Kiyota, K ^a   Hashizume, K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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CHONDRITE; NITROGEN;

EID: 0031706632     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01651.x     Document Type: Article

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