The contamination prevention procedures adopted for controlling the collection, processing, and analysis of the Apollo lunar samples in order to keep them free of significant levels of terrestrial organic matter are described. The organic contaminants actually found in the samples by the various investigators are summarized. It is shown that the program succeeded in providing investigators with samples containing less than 0.1 ppm total contamination.


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    Title :

    Terrestrial contamination in Apollo lunar samples.


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1972-10-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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