Actinide abundances in ordinary chondrites

Details Actinide abundances in ordinary chondrites Actinide abundances in ordinary chondrites

Oct 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990gecoa..54.2847h&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 54, Oct. 1990, p. 2847-2858.

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Actinide Series, Chondrites, Petrography, Phosphates, Plutonium Isotopes, Rare Earth Elements, Solar System, Cesium, Meteorites, Neodymium, Nuclear Fission, Thorium, Xenon Isotopes

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Measurements of actinide and light REE (LREE) abundances and of phosphate abundances in equilibrated ordinary chondrites were obtained and were used to define the Pu abundance in the solar system and to determine the degree of variation of actinide and LREE abundances. The results were also used to compare directly the Pu/U ratio with the earlier obtained ratio determined indirectly, as (Pu/Nd)x(Nd/U), assuming that Pu behaves chemically as a LREE. The data, combined with high-accuracy isotope-dilution data from the literature, show that the degree of gram-scale variability of the Th, U, and LREE abundances for equilibrated ordinary chondrites is a factor of 2-3 for absolute abundances and up to 50 percent for relative abundances. The observed variations are interpreted as reflecting the differences in the compositions and/or proportions of solar nebula components accreted to ordinary chondrite parent bodies.

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