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The extraterrestrial wedding ring

Richard J. Walker ()
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Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6794, 359-360

Abstract: The highly siderophile ('iron loving') elements such as platinum and palladium are more abundant in Earth's mantle than certain lines of evidence suggest they should be. New work lends support to the idea that this comparative enrichment in the mantle stems from meteorites.

Date: 2000
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