NASA NTRS · 19820043809
Observations of interstellar zinc
Abstract
IUE observations toward 10 stars have shown that zinc is not depleted in the interstellar medium by more than a factor of two, suggesting that its abundance may serve as a tracer of the true metallicity in the gas. A result pertinent to the history of nucleosynthesis in the solar neighborhood is that the local interstellar medium has abundances that appear to be homogeneous to within a factor of two, when integrated over paths of about 500 pc.
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York, D. G., Jura, M.. 1982-03-01. Observations of interstellar zinc. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19820043809
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