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WE have previously1 dwelt on the possible volatilisation of some elements from continuous melts of lunar surface material as a result of which it becomes depleted in elements such as Na, K and Rb, and so on. The mechanism of volatilisation proper was not confined to the liquid phase, and so they can also volatilise from the solid phase. Moreover, if solidification is not accompanied by crystallisation, the temperature dependence of the volatilisation time constant τv found in ref. 1 should remain unchanged.
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CHERNYAK, Y., NUSSINOV, M. Volatilisation from solid particles of the regolith. Nature 264, 241 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/264241a0
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