Production and Chemical Analysis of Cometary Ice Tholins
β Scribed by Gene D. McDonald; Linda J. Whited; Cynthia DeRuiter; Bishun N. Khare; Archita Patnaik; Carl Sagan
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Volume
- 122
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-1035
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