Issue 47, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Where on Earth has our water come from?

Nora H. de Leeuw,*a   C. Richard A. Catlow,a   Helen E. King,b   Andrew Putnis,b   Krishna Muralidharan,c   Pierre Deymier,c   Marilena Stimpfld  and  Michael J. Draked  

* Corresponding authors

a 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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Tel: +44 (0)207 6791015

b Institut fuer Mineralogie, University of Muenster, Corrrenstrasse 24, Muenster, Germany

c 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

Abstract

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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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC02312D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Jul 2010
Accepted
01 Oct 2010
First published
22 Oct 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 8923-8925

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Where on Earth has our water come from?

N. H. D. Leeuw, C. R. A. Catlow, H. E. King, A. Putnis, K. Muralidharan, P. Deymier, M. Stimpfl and M. J. Drake, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 8923 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02312D

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