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WE recently argued that the neon and xenon isotope anomalies observed in meteorites can be interpreted in terms of a common process of mass fractionation for both elements1 and that a crucial test of the proposed mechanism should come from studies of the isotope anomalies in krypton. This article is concerned with a set of new krypton data which have recently been obtained in our laboratories and from which it seems that there is indeed a simple relationship between the abundance pattern and isotope anomalies in rare gases neon, argon, krypton and xenon.
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KURODA, P., REYNOLDS, M., SAKAMOTO, K. et al. Isotope Anomalies in Rare Gases. Nature Physical Science 230, 42–43 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci230042a0
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