bystander wrote:Lunar apatite with terrestrial volatile abundances
The team found the water in a calcium phosphate mineral, apatite, within a basalt collected from the moon's surface by the Apollo 14 astronauts. To be precise, they didn't find "water"-the molecule H
2O.
Rather, they found hydrogen in the form of a hydroxyl ANION, OH-, bound in the apatite mineral lattice.
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"Life is like an onion,
Reality like a dream,
Layers and layers until nothing,
Reflection in a pale moon's gleam." - Lady Tristram
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“Life is like an onion:
You peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.” - Carl Sandburg
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SEINFELD Episode no. 136 "The Soul Mate" (Original air date 26 Sept 1996)
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JERRY: Just give me some idea of what you think it could be.
GEORGE: I don't know if you're ready for it.
JERRY: Please.
GEORGE: I believe that I am about to become the target of a systematic process
of intimidation and manipulation, the likes of which you have never -
JERRY: Hold it, hold it! You're right, I'm not ready for this.
GEORGE: I'm not through here, Jerry. I'm gonna keep on investigating.
This thing is like an
onion. The more layers you peel, the more it stinks.
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