Where on Earth has our water come from?
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.
de Leeuw
Nora H
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Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK. n.h.deleeuw@ucl.ac.uk
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Helen E
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Andrew
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Muralidharan
Krishna
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Deymier
Pierre
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Stimpfl
Marilena
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Drake
Michael J
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