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Ballentine, C.J., Barry, P.H. (2017). Noble Gases. In: White, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_195-1

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