Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86.9553h&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, Oct. 10, 1981, p. 9553-9561.
Physics
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Chemical Fractionation, Isotope Separation, Mineralogy, Sputtering, Abundance, Enstatite, Perovskites, Prediction Analysis Techniques, Troilite
Scientific paper
A model is presented which predicts isotope fractionation in material sputtered from mineral surfaces. According to the model, the fractionation is a function of the fractional abundances of each isotope, the low-energy collision cross sections and the atomic masses, and the fractionation pattern can be nonlinear. Calculations are illustrated for all sets of isotopes in the minerals perovskite, anorthite, akermanite, enstatite and troilite, and it is found that while O is always positively fractionated, with heavier isotopes sputtered preferentially, heavier elements are generally negatively fractionated. It is noted that the model may be tested by experiments on a system such as CaF2, CaI2, in which the Ca sputtered from CaF2 is predicted to be strongly fractionated in a negative sense and that sputtered from CaI2 is predicted to be strongly fractionated in a positive sense.
Haff Peter K.
Tombrello T. A.
Watson Christer
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