Cosmochemistry

The discovery that mass spectrometry would soon usurp many of the tasks performed by radioactive counting was in itself serendipitous. It came about because a fundamental issue in cosmochemistry was at stake. Although variation in had... 

Dudich, Endre. From alchemy through geochemistry to cosmochemistry. 

The well-known textbook General Chemistry by Atkins and Beran (1992) starts by telling the reader that the cradle of chemistry lies in the stars. One can hardly think of a better way of emphasising the role of cosmochemistry. The synthesis of the elements, which are now logically ordered in the periodic table, can be divided into three stages, which are separated in both time and space ... 

Although the terms exobiology and astrobiology really mean the same thing, astro-biology , introduced by NASA in 1995, has become the one of choice. This branch of science reaches from cosmochemistry via biogenesis to all the other themes involving research on traces of life (of whatever sort) on planets and on moons, both within and outside our solar system. 

D. S. McPhail, Some applications of SIMS in conservation science, archaeometry and cosmochemistry, Applied Surface Science, 252, 7107 7112 (2006). 

Turekian, K. K., Chan, L. H., The Marine Geochemistry of the Uranium Isotopes, 230Th and 231Pa, In Activation Analysis in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 311-320 (1971). 

C. R. Cowley, An Introduction to Cosmochemistry, Cambridge University Press 1995. 

C.R. Cowley, An Introduction to Cosmochemistry, Cambridge University Press 1995, covers similar ground to some of this book, but with different emphasis, giving more details about Solar System chemistry, atomic and molecular spectra and chemically peculiar stars. 

Garnett, D.R. 2004, in C. Esteban, R. J. Garcia L6pez, A. Herrero F. Sanchez (eds.), XIII Canary Islands Winter School on Astrophysics, Cosmochemistry, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, pp. 204, 208-209,482. 

Halliday, A., Lee, D.-C., Christensen, J. N., et al. (1998). Applications of multiple collector-ICPMS to cosmochemistry, geochemistry and palaeoceanography. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62 919-940. 

Yapp CJ (1990) Oxygen Isotopes in iron (III) oxides 1. Mineral-water factors. Chem Geol 85 329-335 Young ED, Galy A (2004) The isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry of magnesium. Rev Mineral Geochem 55 197-230... 

Leya I, Wider R, Halliday AN (2000) Cosmic-ray production of tungsten isotopes in lunar samples and meteorites and its implications for Hf-W cosmochemistry. Earth Planet Sci Lett 175 1-12 Loss RD, Lugmair GW (1990) Zinc isotope anomalies in Allende meteorite inclusions. Astrophys J 360 L59-L62... 

With regard to Mg isotopes, one is therefore forced to choose between the merit of precedence in the cosmochemistry community and that of conformity with the other light stable isotope systems when deciding upon a nomenclature for reporting and Mg/ Mg... 

We strongly recommend that these conventions be adopted at this early stage in the development of Mg isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry to eliminate the current ambiguity in the meaning of the A symbol in the literature. Presumably, confusion will be kept to a minimum if the same meaning is assigned to the same symbols in different isotope systems where ever possible. 

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