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The solar system is the richest source of reliable information on elemental and isotopic abundances. They are used as a “cosmic” reference for testing theories of the early universe, stellar and galactic formation and dynamics, and nucleosynthesis (see, e.g., reviews on nucleosynthesis by Trimble 1991, and interstellar abundances by Wilson and Matteucci 1992). Anders and Grevesse (1989) give a recent compilation of solar system abundances which are based on meteoritic (carbonaceous chondrites) abundances, and also compare them with abundances measured from solar photospheric spectra.
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Fludra, A. et al. (1999). Coronal Abundances. In: Strong, K.T., Saba, J.L.R., Haisch, B.M., Schmelz, J.T. (eds) The Many Faces of the Sun. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1442-7_4
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