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Measurement of the Potential Rates of Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium Based on 14NH4+/15NH4+ Analyses via Sequential Conversion to N2O
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Fixation of nitrogen in the prebiotic atmosphere

Y L Yung, M B McElroy

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |March 9, 1979
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