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Apr 1976
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976lpsc....7..587n&link_type=abstract
In: Lunar Science Conference, 7th, Houston, Tex., March 15-19, 1976, Proceedings. Volume 1. (A77-34651 15-91) New York, Pergamon
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Abundance, Gas Analysis, Krypton Isotopes, Lunar Rocks, Rare Gases, Xenon Isotopes, Argon Isotopes, Fractionation, High Temperature, Neon Isotopes, Tables (Data)
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Aliquots of lunar rock 60015 were subjected to various types of exposure and handling designed to produce terrestrial contamination, in order to test the possibility of a terrestrial origin for the terrestrial-like trapped Xe reported for lunar rock samples. Crushing the rock produced up to order-of-magnitude increases in the abundances of Ar, Kr, and Xe relative to the millimeter-sized chips of 60015 previously analyzed. Contrary to expectations for atmospheric contamination, high temperatures (above 1000 C) were necessary to remove about 75% of the trapped Kr and Xe, and the rare-gas elemental abundance ratios differed from those in terrestrial samples believed to have occluded atmospheric gases. It is concluded, on the basis of similar temperature-release profiles and elemental-fractionation patterns, that the trapped Xe observed in all these 60015 analyses is atmospheric contamination. Such a conclusion cannot unequivocally be drawn for other lunar rocks containing terrestrial-like Xe, but the present results demonstrate that arguments based on high extraction temperatures and elemental abundance ratios cannot be useful to rule out rare-gas atmospheric contamination in such samples.
Leich Douglas Albert
Niemeyer Sid
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