Laser ablation (193 nm), purification and determination of very low concentrations of solar wind nitrogen implanted in targets from the genesis spacecraft

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-194

  Zimmermann, Laurent ^a   Burnard, Pete ^a   Marty, Bernard ^a   Gaboriaud, Fabien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

GENESIS mission; Laser ablation; Mass spectrometry; Nitrogen; Purification

Indexed keywords

EID: 66649084695     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2009.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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