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Carbon Compounds in Pyrolysates and Amino Acids in Extracts of Apollo 14 Lunar Samples

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The analysis of seven samples brought back by the Apollo 14 astronauts is described. Carbon was present in the gases evolved to between 76 and 161 p.p.m. Glycine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid and serine were among the most abundant amnio acids found.

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721

    VINCENT E. MODZELESKI, JUDITH E. MODZELESKI, M. A. JABBAR MOHAMMED, LOIS ANNE NAGY & BARTHOLOMEW NAGY

  2. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, 93555

    WILLIAM S. McEWAN

  3. University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92037

    HAROLD C. UREY

  4. A. I. du Pont Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, 19899

    PAUL B. HAMILTON

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MODZELESKI, V., MODZELESKI, J., MOHAMMED, M. et al. Carbon Compounds in Pyrolysates and Amino Acids in Extracts of Apollo 14 Lunar Samples. Nature Physical Science 242, 50–52 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci242050a0

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