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Science 16 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5388, pp. 452 - 455
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5388.452
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Oxygen Reservoirs in the Early Solar Nebula Inferred from an Allende CAI

Edward D. Young, * Sara S. Russell

Ultraviolet laser microprobe analyses of a calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) from the Allende meteorite suggest that a line with a slope of exactly 1.00 on a plot of delta 17O against delta 18O represents the primitive oxygen isotope reservoir of the early solar nebula. Most meteorites are enriched in 17O and 18O relative to this line, and their oxygen isotope ratios can be explained by mass fractionation or isotope exchange initiating from the primitive reservoir. These data establish a link between the oxygen isotopic composition of the abundant ordinary chondrites and the primitive 16O-rich component of CAIs.

E. D. Young, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, UK. E-mail: ed.young{at}earth.ox.ac.uk S. S. Russell, Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. E-mail: sarr{at}nhm.ac.uk
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed.

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