Nitrogen isotopic compositions of iron meteorites

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993gecoa..57.3749p&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 57, no. 15, p. 3749-3761.

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Chemical Composition, Cosmochemistry, Iron Meteorites, Nitrogen Isotopes, Cosmic Rays, Interstellar Matter, Nuclear Fusion

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Iron meteorites analyzed in this study have nitrogen concentrations 70 microg/g or less and delta N-15 from -90 to +150 percent. Although the iron meteorites have a large range of delta N-15, most have values more negative than -50 percent. The nitrogen isotopic compositions were established by cosmochemical processes and were little modified by fractional crystallization or other chemical processes within the parent bodies. The data do not suggest the existence of a well-mixed solar nebular reservoir for nitrogen, as was already inferred from data from stony meteorites. The range of greater than 1100 percent observed for delta N-15 in bulk meteorites is probably too large to be accounted for by physical and chemical mass-dependent fractionation processes in the solar nebula, and thus reflects nebular inhomogeneities of nucleosynthetic origin.

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