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Carbon Compounds in Apollo 11 Lunar Samples

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Are they entrapped solar wind particles, meteoritic or cometary contributions, remnants of a primordial atmosphere or products of the degassing of the Moon ?

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NAGY, B., SCOTT, W., MODZELESKI, V. et al. Carbon Compounds in Apollo 11 Lunar Samples. Nature 225, 1028–1032 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251028a0

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