Carbon in the universe

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5397, 1998, Pages 2204-2210

  Henning, Th ^a   Salama, F ^b  

^a Astrophysikalisches Institut   (Germany)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ASTRONOMY; ATOM; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; GAS ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ASTRONOMY; CARBON; CARBON COMPOUNDS, INORGANIC; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

EID: 0032545211     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5397.2204     Document Type: Review

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