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RECENT measurements of the oscillator strengths (f-values) of FeI lines have led to an increase in the figure for the solar abundance of iron by a factor ∼ 10 compared with that in the classical paper of Goldberg, Müller and Aller1. This has far reaching consequences for astrophysics and for the interpretation of abundances in meteorites.
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GARZ, T., KOCK, M., RICHTER, J. et al. Abundances of Iron and Some Other Elements in the Sun and in Meteorites. Nature 223, 1254–1255 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231254a0
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