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Carbon Compounds in Apollo 12 Lunar Samples

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Analysis of surface fines and core samples obtained on the Apollo 12 mission reveals small quantities of carbon compounds. The results from pyrolysis, mass spectrometry, ion exchange chromatography, and both optical and electron microscopy may shed some light on the origin and history of these organic molecules.

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  1. WARD M. SCOTT

    Present address: UKAEA, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, Berkshire

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  1. Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721

    BARTHOLOMEW NAGY, JUDITH E. MODZELESKI, VINCENT E. MODZELESKI, M. A. JABBAR MOHAMMAD, LOIS ANNE NAGY & WARD M. SCOTT

  2. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, 93555

    CHARLES M. DREW, JOSEPH E. THOMAS & REBA WARD

  3. Alfred I. duPont Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, 19899

    PAUL B. HAMILTON

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92037

    HAROLD C. UREY

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NAGY, B., MODZELESKI, J., MODZELESKI, V. et al. Carbon Compounds in Apollo 12 Lunar Samples. Nature 232, 94–98 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232094a0

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