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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Aluminum-26 : an abundance mechanism

Jonas, Seth H. 01 January 2001 (has links)
Aluminum-26 (26Al) is a radioactive isotope that has a relatively short half-life, approximately 0.74 million yeras. Thus, since the formation of the earth some 4500 million years ago, the concentrations of 26Al should have decayed to nearly zero, yet 26Al has also been found in lunar and Martian samples. We attempt to elucidate the mechanism by which this aluminum arrived, or formed, on/in the space blanket, the lunar material, and the Martian material. The fecundity of four proposed abundance schemes is analyzed. The four schemes are as follows: (I) stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, (ii) nuclear testing in the upper atmosphere, (iii) fission powered satellites, and (iv) cosmic ray-induced nuclear reactions.

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