Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974lssf.nasa..253b&link_type=abstract
"In its Lunar Soil from the Sea of Fertility (NASA-TT-F-15881) p 253-259 (SEE N75-11814 02-91) Transl. into ENGLISH from the bo
Physics
Lunar Maria, Lunar Soil, Mercury (Metal), Quantitative Analysis, Apollo 11 Flight, Apollo 12 Flight, Atomic Spectra, Lunar Surface, Lunik 16 Lunar Probe
Scientific paper
The direct determination of mercury by the atomic fluorescent method is described, involving the pulsed thermal atomization of powdered samples when the mercury is vaporized in argon at normal pressure. An increase in the mercury abundance in the regolith of the surficial layer with decrease in grain size and with variation in depth was noted, from 6 minus 1 million the surficial layer to 9 minus 1 million percent at a depth of about 30 cm. It is shown that in conditions simulating lunar day, at temperatures of 130-150 C up to 15 to 20 percent of the mercury is vaporized from a 2 mg regolith weighed sample, and thus the hypothesis is advanced that mercury is adsorbed by the surface layers of the lunar surface material during lunar night and desorbed during lunar day. The assumption is advanced that there exists a meridional mercury wind between subsolar region of the moon (heater) and the polar regions (cooler).
Belyayev Y. I.
Koveshnikova T. A.
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