Table 1. Calculated Yields of Alanine and β-Alanine in the CM Parent Body^a.

		yield rate/μM y–1		yield rate/ng g–1 y–1			total yield/μM		total yield/μg g–1
time/y	dose rate/Gy y–1	alanine	β-alanine	alanine	β-alanine	total dose/kGy	alanine	β-alanine	alanine	β-alanine
1	6.0	0.037	0.0019	0.53	0.028	0.0060	0.037	0.0019	0.00053	2.8 × 10–5
10	6.0	0.037	0.0019	0.53	0.028	0.060	0.37	0.019	0.0053	0.00028
100	6.0	0.037	0.0019	0.53	0.028	0.60	3.7	0.19	0.053	0.0028
1,000	6.0	0.036	0.0019	0.53	0.028	6.0	36	1.9	0.53	0.028
10,000	5.9	0.036	0.0019	0.53	0.028	60	3.6 × 102	19	5.3	0.28
100,000	5.4	0.033	0.0017	0.48	0.025	5.7 × 102	3.5 × 103	1.8 × 102	51	2.7
1,000,000	2.3	0.014	0.00074	0.21	0.011	3.9 × 103	2.4 × 104	1.2 × 103	3.4 × 102	18
10,000,000	0.00045	2.7 × 10–6	1.4 × 10–7	4.0 × 10–5	2.1 × 10–6	6.3 × 103	3.8 × 104	2.0 × 103	5.6 × 102	29

^aAmounts of alanine and β-alanine expected to be produced in the parent body of CM chondrites reported in yields per year (yield rates) and total yields in the liquid phase (μM) as well as in the whole rock (ng g^–1 or μg g^–1).