Combined Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Xanes Spectroscopy on Hydrated and Anhydrous Interplanetary
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Introduction: Interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) collected from the Earth's stratosphere generally contain percent-level concentrations of organic matter [1]. This organic matter in IDPs is important for several reasons: 1) some IDPs contain interstellar organic matter, identified by high D/H or
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