Reactions of xenon with iron and nickel are predicted in the Earth's inner core

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 644-648

  Zhu, Li ^a   Liu, Hanyu ^a   Pickard, Chris J ^b   Zou, Guangtian ^a   Ma, Yanming ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NICKEL; XENON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERE; EARTH (PLANET); IRON; NICKEL; PRESSURE; XENON;

EID: 84903143602     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1925     Document Type: Article

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