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Published in final edited form as: Earth Planet Sci Lett. 2015 May 13;423:114–124. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.001

Table 1:

HSE abundances (in pg g −1) and 187Os/188Os composition of quartz and pyrex glass

Sample Glass Type Method Mass (g) Os Ir Ru Pt Pd Re 187Os/188Os ±2σ
Pyrex Glass Neck CT 1.035 18.8 105 4.7 5.7 0.3 3.3 0.142 0.004
Neck HF-HNO3 0.201 NA 413 234 435 106 55 NA
Base CT 1.059 21.5 29.0 2.5 640.9 9.2 2.8 0.231 0.025
Base HF-HNO3 0.228 NA 647 101 978 25 26 NA
Quartz Glass Neck CT 1.016 6.2 13.3 1.7 2.7 36.8 2.8 0.168 0.005
Neck HF-HNO3 0.198 NA 402 31 124 134 25 NA
Base CT 0.991 6.5 17.1 1.7 3.3 594 2.2 0.166 0.003
Base HF-HNO3 0.198 NA 613 21 115 185 22 NA
Middle HF-HNO3 0.210 NA 430 16 68 104 31 NA

Approximately 50 g of pyrex or quartz used to make Carius tubes were cleaned in boiling Aqua Regia and then crushed and powdered using alumina grinding devices. The powders were spiked and digested using Carius tubes (3 days, 270°C) or teflon vials (3 days, 150°C). Because of the volatility of osmium tetraoxide during high-temperature oxidation, we do not report Os concentrations or Os isotopic compositions for HF-HNO3 experiments. Ru concentrations may also be lower in these experiments due to partial oxidation of Ru+(VIII) to ruthenium tetraoxide (boiling point = 40°C). Samples are blank corrected to the total procedural blanks run with the experiments (For HF-HNO3 experiments= 19 pg Ir, 21 pg Ru, 1 pg Pt, 60 pg Pd, 8 pg Re; for Carius Tubes experiments= 0.2 ± 0.2 pg Os, 1.8 ± 1.1 pg Ir, 1.1 ± 1.2 pg Ru, 9.4 ± 5.2 pg Pt, 5.9 ± 0.63 pg Pd, 0.91 ± 0.19 pg Re, 187Os/188Os = 0.165 ± 0.011, n = 4 - note, these TPB differ from the TPB cohort run with lunar mare basalt samples). NA = not analysed.