Yurimoto H, Ito M, Nagasawa H
H. Yurimoto, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan. M. Ito and H. Nagasawa, Department of Chemistry, Gakushuin University, Mejiro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan.
Science. 1998 Dec 4;282(5395):1874-7.
A calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) from the Allende meteorite was analyzed and found to contain melilite crystals with extreme oxygen-isotope compositions ( approximately 5 percent oxygen-16 enrichment relative to terrestrial oxygen-16). Some of the melilite is also anomalously enriched in oxygen-16 compared with oxygen isotopes measured in other CAIs. The oxygen isotopic variation measured among the minerals (melilite, spinel, and fassaite) indicates that crystallization of the CAI started from oxygen-16-rich materials that were probably liquid droplets in the solar nebula, and oxygen isotope exchange with the surrounding oxygen-16-poor nebular gas progressed through the crystallization of the CAI. Additional oxygen isotope exchange also occurred during subsequent reheating events in the solar nebula.
对来自阿连德陨石的一颗富钙铝包体(CAI)进行了分析,发现其中含有氧同位素组成极为特殊的黄长石晶体(相对于地球的氧 - 16,氧 - 16富集约5%)。与在其他CAIs中测得的氧同位素相比,一些黄长石的氧 - 16也异常富集。在矿物(黄长石、尖晶石和斜硅钙钛矿)中测得的氧同位素变化表明,CAI的结晶始于富含氧 - 16的物质,这些物质可能是太阳星云里的液滴,并且随着CAI的结晶过程,与周围贫氧 - 16的星云气体发生了氧同位素交换。在太阳星云随后的再加热事件中也发生了额外的氧同位素交换。