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Chapter 10 : The Big Picture : Cosmo Chemistry

By White, W. M.

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Introduction: In the previous eight chapters we acquired a full set of geochemical tools. In this and subsequent chapters, we will apply these tools to understanding the Earth. Certainly any full understanding of the Earth includes an understanding of its origin and it relationship to its neighboring celestial bodies. That is our focus in this chapter. The question of the origin of the Earth is closely tied to that of the composition of the Earth, and certainly the latter is central to geochemistry. Indeed, one of the primary objectives of early geochemists was to determine the abundance of the elements in the Earth. It is natural to wonder what accounts for these abundances and to ask whether the elemental abundances in the Earth are the same as the abundances elsewhere in the solar system and in the universe. We might also ask why the Earth consists mainly of magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and iron? Why not titanium, fluorine and gold? Upon posing these questions, the realm of geochemistry melds smoothly into the realms of cosmochemistry and cosmology. Cosmochemistry has as its objective an understanding of the distribution and abundance of elements in the Solar System, and, to a lesser degree, the cosmos (the latter is relegated to secondary stature only because the data on objects outside the Solar System are much less complete) ...

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Title: Chapter 10 : The Big Picture : Cosmo Chemistry  
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