Evaporative fractionation of zinc during the first nuclear detonation

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Day, James M D ^a,b   Moynier, Frédéric ^b   Meshik, Alex P ^c   Pradivtseva, Olga V ^c   Petit, Donald R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETONATION; EVAPORATION; GLASS; ISOTOPES; SILICATES; ZINC;

EVAPORATION PROCESS; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; NATURAL ANALOG; SILICATE GLASS; SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTIONS; VOLATILE ELEMENTS;

FRACTIONATION;

EID: 85020380814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602668     Document Type: Article

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