Ac breakdown in near-atmospheric pressure noble gases: I. Experiment

Interpretation of dissolved atmospheric noble gases in natural waters

Several studies have used the temperature dependence of gas solubilities in water to derive paleotemperatures from noble gases in groundwaters. We present a general method to infer environmental parameters from concentrations of dissolved atmospheric noble gases in water. Our approach incorporates statistical methods to quantify uncertainties of the deduced parameter values. The equilibration t...

Q NOBLE GASES IN THE ORGUEIL HF/HCl RESIDUE: A HIGH-PRESSURE EXPERIMENT

Noble gases in mantle plumes.

Trieloff et al. (1) provided neon isotope data to argue that mantle neon originates as a trapped component in meteorites rather than having a pristine solar composition. That finding, if true, has important consequences for understanding the mechanism of volatile input into the mantle, because it rules out models involving direct incorporation of solar gases. The main argument that Trieloff et ...

Noble Gases in Tagish Lake

Introduction: Tagish Lake has been classified as a CI2 chondrite [1] with an interstellar grain abundance enhanced over that of CI1 and CM2 chondrites [2]. Noble gases have been used as markers for the presence of exotic, presolar grains in chondritic meteorites: Xe-HL (nanodiamonds) and Xe-s/Ne-E (SiC). We have measured He, Ne, Ar and Xe in whole-rock Tagish Lake, and an orthophosphoric acidre...

Electro-Hydrodynamics of Micro-Discharges in Gases at Atmospheric Pressure