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Cosmochemistry /
"How did the Solar System's chemical composition evolve? This textbook provides the answers in the first interdisciplinary introduction to cosmochemistry. It makes this exciting and evolving field accessible to undergraduate and graduate students from a range of backgrounds, including geol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction to cosmochemistry
- 2. Nuclides and elements : the building blocks of matter
- 3. Origin of the elements
- 4. Solar system and cosmic abundances : elements and isotopes
- 5. Presolar grains : a record of stellar nucleosynthesis and processes in interstellar space
- 6. Meteorites : a record of nebular and planetary processes
- 7. Cosmochemical and geochemical fractionations
- 8. Radioisotopes as chronometers
- 9. Chronology of the solar system from radioactive isotopes
- 10. The most volatile elements and compounds : organic matter, noble gases, and ices
- 11. Chemistry of anhydrous planetesimals
- 12. Chemistry of comets and other ice-bearing planetesimals
- 13. Geochemical exploration of planets : Moon and Mars as case studies
- 14. Cosmochemical models for the formation of the solar system
- Appendix : some analytical techniques commonly used in cosmochemistry.