Sims Analysis of Water Abundance and Hydrogen Isotope in Lunar Highland Plagioclase
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PLAGIOCLASE. Hejiu Hui, Yunbin Guan, Yang Chen, Anne H. Peslier, Youxue Zhang, Yang Liu, George R. Rossman, John M. Eiler, Clive R. Neal, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91009, Jacobs, NASA-Johnson Space Center, Mail Code X13, Houston, TX 77058, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
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