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Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK
E-mail: n.h.deleeuw@ucl.ac.uk
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Institut fuer Mineralogie, University of Muenster, Corrrenstrasse 24, Muenster, Germany
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Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
d
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 8923-8925
DOI:
10.1039/C0CC02312D
Received
01 Jul 2010,
Accepted
01 Oct 2010
First published online
22 Oct 2010
The presence of water in the Earth has long been an enigma. However, computer modelling techniques have shown that the adsorption of water onto the fractal surfaces of interplanetary dust particles, which are present in the planetary accretion disk, is sufficiently strong to provide a viable origin of terrestrial water.
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