Sulfur isotopic fractionation in vacuum UV photodissociation of hydrogen sulfide and its potential relevance to meteorite analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17650-17655

  Chakraborty, Subrata ^a   Jackson, Teresa L ^a   Ahmed, Musahid ^b   Thiemens, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE; ISOTOPE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM ULTRAVOILET PHOTON;

ACHONDRITES; CHONDRITES; ISOTOPE;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METEOROIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR ISOTOPES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VACUUM;

EID: 84887105249     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213150110     Document Type: Article

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