Organic Analysis of the Returned Lunar Sample

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Jan 1970

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1970sci...167..757a&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 167, Issue 3918, pp. 757-759

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Lunar fines have been examined for organic compounds by crushing, programmed heating, hydrofluoric acid etching, and solvent extraction. Products were examined by mass spectroscopy. A variety of small organic molecules, including methane and other hydrocarbons, accompanied the release of the rare gases when the sample was heated in a stepwise fashion to 900 degrees C under vacuum. Methane is more abundant (abundance on the order of 1 part per million) than argon in the matrix-entrapped gases liberated by hydrofluoric acid etching of lunar fines. Methane is also present in a dark portion of the gas-rich meteorite Kapoeta.

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