Ratios of ferrous to ferric iron from nanometre-sized areas in minerals

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6712, 1998, Pages 667-670

  Garvie, Laurence A J ^a   Buseck, Peter R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; MINERAL;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY;

EID: 0032542369     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25334     Document Type: Article

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