Pristine extraterrestrial material with unprecedented nitrogen isotopic variation
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Pristine extraterrestrial material with unprecedented nitrogen isotopic variation.
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901546106