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Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System and Concordant Plutonium/Xenon and Iodine/Xenon Decay Intervals of Achondrites

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Concordant plutonium/xenon and iodine/xenon decay intervals have been obtained for a dozen meteorites, mostly achondrites. Plutonium-244 and iodine-129 abundances in the early solar system suggest that these extinct nuclides were synthesized in the galactic nucleosynthesis process, which lasted several billion years.

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SABU, D., KURODA, P. Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System and Concordant Plutonium/Xenon and Iodine/Xenon Decay Intervals of Achondrites. Nature 216, 442–446 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216442a0

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