Plutonium-fission xenon found in earth's mantle

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5365, 1998, Pages 877-880

  Kunz, Joachim ^a   Staudacher, Thomas ^b   Allègre, Claude J ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 129; PLUTONIUM; URANIUM 238; XENON;

ACCRETION; DEGASSING; MANTLE; PLUTONIUM-244; XENON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

EID: 0032496291     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5365.877     Document Type: Article

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