Lunar mining of oxygen using fluorine
Lunar mining of oxygen using fluorine
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Date
1992
Authors
Burt, Donald M.
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Johnson Space Center
Abstract
An important aspect of lunar mining will be the extraction of volatiles, particularly oxygen, from lunar rocks. Thermodynamic data show that oxygen could readily be recovered by fluorination of abundant lunar anorthite
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Fluorine,
Lunar petrology
Citation
NASA. Johnson Space Center, The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Volume 2; p. p 423-428