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New techniques considerably extend the usefulness of meteoritic minerals in the study of the composition of prehistoric cosmic radiation.
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LAL, D., RAJAN, R. & TAMHANE, A. Chemical Composition of Nuclei of Z > 22 in Cosmic Rays using Meteoritic Minerals as Detectors. Nature 221, 33–37 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221033a0
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