An introduction to cosmochemistry /
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| Author / Creator: | Cowley, Charles R., 1934- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| Description: | p. cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1628541 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Overview
- 2. Minerals: an introduction to the nomenclature and chemistry
- 3. A brief introduction to petrology
- 4. A resume of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
- 5. Condensation sequences and the geochemical classification of the elements
- 6. The theory of the bulk composition of the planets
- 7. Meteorites and the standard abundance distribution (SAD)
- 8. An introduction to isotope geology
- 9. Some concepts from nuclear physics
- 10. Energy generation in stars and nucleosynthesis
- 11. Atomic and molecular spectra
- 12. The analysis of stellar spectra
- 13. The chemistry of stars and the stellar systems
- 14. Cold, non-stellar material in galaxies
- 15. Emission line regions and their chemical abundances
- 16. Abundances of the elements in galaxies
