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COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE
Volume 345, Issue 3, Pages 150-159Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2013.01.004
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Nuclear Field Shift; Isotopes; CAIs; Uranium; Meteorites
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- NASA COSMO [NNX12AH70G]
- EXO [NNX12AD88G]
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The nuclear field shift (NFS) is an isotope shift in atomic energy levels caused by a combination of differences in nuclear size and shape and electron densities at the nucleus. The effect of NFS in isotope fractionation was theoretically established by Bigeleisen in 1996 [Bigeleisen J. (1996) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118:3676-3680] and has been analytically measured in laboratory chemical exchange reactions. More recently, some isotopic variations of heavy elements (Hg, Tl, U) measured in natural systems as well as isotopic anomalies measured for lower-mass elements in meteorites have been attributed to the NFS effect. These isotopic variations open up new and exciting fields of investigations in Earth sciences. In this paper, we review the different natural systems in which NFS has been proposed to be the origin of isotopic variations. (C) 2013 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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