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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Geosci. 2019 Jun 3;12(7):564–568. doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0375-x

Figure 2. Indium and Zn abundances normalized to CI chondrites and Mg in chondrites and the BSE.

Figure 2

Carbonaceous chondrites25 and the BSE14 have a CI-chondritic In/Zn ratio as marked by the dashed line, whereas unequilibrated enstatite chondrites31 scatter around the CI-chondritic ratio. Because of the large scatter of In abundances in ordinary chondrites, representative In/Zn cannot be inferred14,18. Since the In/Zn ratio of the BSE plots on the CI-chondritic ratio, it is concluded that In and Zn both behaved predominantly lithophile during core formation.