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A New Discrimination Scheme for Oceanic Ferromanganese Deposits using High Field Strength and Rare Earth Elements ArchiMer
Josso, P.; Pelleter, Ewan; Pourret, O.; Fouquet, Yves; Etoubleau, Joel; Cheron, Sandrine; Bollinger, C..
Ferromanganese (Fe-Mn) deposits constitute a ubiquitous mineral type in oceanic settings, with metal (Cu, Ni, Zn, Co, Pt) and rare earth elements (REE) enrichments of potential economic interest. Routine analysis of trace elements by ICP-MS has advanced our understanding of the impact of hydrogenetic, diagenetic and hydrothermal processes on the mobility and interaction of high field strength elements (HFSE: Zr, Ti) and REE and yttrium (REY) with Fe-Mn oxyhydroxides. Recent discoveries in the French exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Wallis and Futuna (southwest Pacific Ocean) have brought new insight to the formation of low temperature (LT) hydrothermal Mn deposits and lead us to reconsider the classification and discrimination diagrams for of Fe-Mn...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Ferromanganese mineralization; Hydrogenetic crusts; Nodules; Hydrothermal deposits; Rare earth elements; High field strength elements; Classification.
Ano: 2017 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00350/46156/45854.pdf
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Acquisition of the neodymium isotopic composition of the North Atlantic Deep Water ArchiMer
Lacan, F; Jeandel, C.
The North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) neodymium isotopic composition (Nd IC) is increasingly used in oceanography and paleoceanography to trace large-scale circulation and weathering processes, notably to investigate past variations of the global thermohaline circulation. Although the present-day NADW Nd IC is well characterized at epsilon(Nd) = - 13.5, the acquisition of this isotopic signature ( in other words, the causes of this value) has so far been very sparsely documented. Such an understanding is, however, fundamental to the interpretation of paleo records. Nd IC and rare earth element concentrations were measured at 9 stations within the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre ( SIGNATURE cruise, summer 1999). The comparison of this data set with our...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Boundary exchange; Neodymium isotopic composition; North Atlantic Deep Water; Rare earth elements; Sediment seawater interaction; Water mass.
Ano: 2005 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00232/34282/32656.pdf
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Determination of Rare Earth Elements, Sc, Y, Zr, Ba, Hf and Th in Geological Samples by ICP-MS after Tm Addition and Alkaline Fusion ArchiMer
Bayon, Germain; Barrat, Jean Alix; Etoubleau, Joel; Benoit, Mathieu; Bollinger, Claire; Revillon, Sidonie.
We present a revised method for the determination of concentrations of rare earth (REE) and other trace elements (Y, Sc, Zr, Ba, Hf, Th) in geological samples. Our analytical procedure involves sample digestion using alkaline fusion (NaOH-Na2O2) after addition of a Tm spike, co-precipitation on iron hydroxides, and measurement by sector field-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (SF-ICP-MS). The procedure was tested successfully for various rock types (i.e., basalt, ultramafic rock, sediment, soil, granite), including rocks with low trace element abundances (sub ng g(-1)). Results obtained for a series of nine geological reference materials (BIR-1, BCR-2, UB-N, JP-1, AC-E, MA-N, MAG-1, GSMS-2, GSS-4) are in reasonable agreement with published...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Digestion des Echantillons; Spike de Tm; ICP MS; MatEriaux de rEfErence; Echantillons gEologiques; ElEments du groupe des Terres Rares; Sample digestion; Tm spike; ICP MS; Reference materials; Geological samples; Rare earth elements.
Ano: 2009 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6449.pdf
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Differentiating Lithogenic Supplies, Water Mass Transport, and Biological Processes On and Off the Kerguelen Plateau Using Rare Earth Element Concentrations and Neodymium Isotopic Compositions ArchiMer
Grenier, Melanie; Garcia-solsona, Ester; Lemaitre, Nolwenn; Trull, Thomas W.; Bouvier, Vincent; Nonnotte, Philippe; Van Beek, Pieter; Souhaut, Marc; Lacan, Francois; Jeandel, Catherine.
Distributions of dissolved rare earth element (REE) concentrations and neodymium isotopic compositions (expressed as epsilon(Nd)) of seawater over and off the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean are presented. The sampling took place during the austral spring bloom in October-November 2011 (KEOPS2 project, GEOTRACES process study) and aimed to further the investigations of the KEOPS1 austral summer study in terms of sources and transport of lithogenic material, and to investigate the impact of local biogeochemical cycles on the REE distributions. The REE signature of the coastal eastern Kerguelen Islands waters was characterized by negative europium anomalies (Eu/Eu*) and negative epsilon(Nd) in filtered samples. By contrast, the unfiltered sample...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Southern Ocean; Kerguelen Islands; Rare earth elements; Fractionation; Anomalies; Lithogenic; Biologic; GEOTRACES.
Ano: 2018 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00616/72764/72274.pdf
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Evidence for intense REE scavenging at cold seeps from the Niger Delta margin ArchiMer
Bayon, Germain; Birot, Dominique; Ruffine, Livio; Caprais, Jean-claude; Ponzevera, Emmanuel; Bollinger, C.; Donval, Jean-pierre; Charlou, Jean-luc; Voisset, Michel; Grimaud, S..
For many trace elements, continental margins are the location of intense exchange processes between sediment and seawater, which control their distribution in the water column, but have yet to be fully understood. In this study, we have investigated the impact of fluid seepage at cold seeps on the marine cycle of neodymium. We determined dissolved and total dissolvable (TD) concentrations for REE and well-established tracers of fluid seepage (CH4, TDFe, TDMn), and Nd isotopic compositions in seawater samples collected above cold seeps and a reference site (i.e. away from any fluid venting area) from the Niger Delta margin. We also analyzed cold seep authigenic phases and various core-top sediment fractions (pore water, detrital component, easily leachable...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Rare earth elements; Neodymium isotopes; Seawater; Cold seeps; Fe-Mn oxyhydroxides; Benthic fluxes.
Ano: 2011 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00066/17754/15571.pdf
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Geochemical behaviour of trace elements during fractional crystallization and crustal assimilation of the felsic alkaline magmas of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anais da ABC (AABC)
MOTOKI,AKIHISA; SICHEL,SUSANNA E.; VARGAS,THAIS; MELO,DEAN P.; MOTOKI,KENJI F..
ABSTRACT This paper presents geochemical behaviour of trace elements of the felsic alkaline rocks of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with special attention of fractional crystallization and continental crust assimilation. Fractionation of leucite and K-feldspar increases Rb/K and decreases K2O/(K2O+Na2O). Primitive nepheline syenite magmas have low Zr/TiO2, Sr, and Ba. On the Nb/Y vs. Zr/TiO2 diagram, these rocks are projected on the field of alkaline basalt, basanite, and nephelinite, instead of phonolite. Well-fractionated peralkaline nepheline syenite has high Zr/TiO2 but there are no zircon. The diagrams of silica saturation index (SSI) distinguish the trends originated form fractional crystallization and crustal assimilation. In the field of...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article Palavras-chave: Nepheline syenite; Alkaline syenite; Trace elements; Rare earth elements; Fractional crystallization; Continental crust assimilation.
Ano: 2015 URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000501959
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Geochemical provenance of sediments from the northern East China Sea document a gradual migration of the Asian Monsoon belt over the past 400,000 years ArchiMer
Beny, Francois; Toucanne, Samuel; Skonieczny, Charlotte; Bayon, Germain; Ziegler, Martin.
The reconstruction of the long-term evolution of the East Asian Monsoon remains controversial. In this study, we aim to give a new outlook on this evolution by studying a 400 kyr long sediment record (U1429) from the northern East China Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346. Neodymium isotopic ratios and rare earth element concentrations of different grain-size fractions reveal significant provenance changes of the sediments in the East China Sea between East Asian continental sources (mainly Yellow River) and sediment contributions from the Japanese Archipelago. These provenance changes are interpreted as the direct impact of sea level changes, due to the reorganization of East Asian river mouth locations and ocean circulation on the East China Sea...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Monsoon; Eastern Asia; East China sea; Quaternary; Radiogenic isotopes; Neodymium; Rare earth elements.
Ano: 2018 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00439/55088/56791.pdf
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Lanthanum content and effects on growth, gas exchanges, and chlorophyll index in maize plants Biological Sciences
Duarte, Ana Carolina Oliveira; Oliveira, Cynthia de; Ramos, Sílvio Júnio; Castro, Evaristo Mauro de; Siqueira, José Oswaldo; Guilherme, Luiz Roberto Guimarães.
Rare earth elements, such as lanthanum (La), have been applied to agriculture via fertilizers, aiming to increase the productivity and crop quality, such results observed mainly in China. However, the knowledge about the effect of La on maize growth, as well as for other species, despite the growing interest it is still limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of La on maize growth, La content, photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll content in maize plants in response to La treatment (0, 25, 50, 100, 150, 300 and 600 μM) in nutrient solution for three weeks. The plants were placed in geminated pots using a split-root technique. One of the pots in the geminated set was filled with a complete nutrient solution without La, while another was...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article Palavras-chave: Ciências Agrárias crops; Photosynthesis; Rare earth elements; Zea mays. Produção Vegetal.
Ano: 2018 URL: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/38469
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Multi-Element Determination of Trace Elements in Natural Water Reference Materials by ICP-SFMS after Tm Addition and Iron Co-precipitation ArchiMer
Bayon, Germain; Birot, Dominique; Bollinger, Claire; Barrat, Jean Alix.
We report on an improved method for determining trace element abundances in seawater and other natural waters. The analytical procedure involves co-precipitation on iron hydroxides after addition of a Tm spike, and measurement by inductively coupled plasma-sector field mass spectrometry (ICP-SFMS). The validity of the method was assessed through a series of co-precipitation experiments, using ultra-diluted solutions of a certified rock reference material (BIR-1). Results obtained for four natural water reference materials (NASS-5, CASS-4, SLEW-3, SLRS-4) are in agreement with published working values for rare earth elements, yttrium, vanadium and, when available, for hafnium, zirconium, thorium and scandium. A set of proposed values with uncertainties...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Seawater; Reference material; ICP-MS; Trace elements; Rare earth elements; Eau de mer; Materiau de reference; ICP-MS; Elements traces; Terres Rares.
Ano: 2011 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00031/14189/18000.pdf
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Neodymium Isotopes in Glauconite for Palaeoceanographic Reconstructions at Continental Margins: A Preliminary Investigation From Demerara Rise ArchiMer
Giresse, Pierre; Bayon, Germain; Tallobre, Cédric; Loncke, Lies.
Contourite sediment accumulations at continental margins are related to strong bottom water circulation, where intense winnowing can result in neoformation of authigenic grains of glauconite at the seafloor. In this study, we investigated whether such glauconite grains could faithfully record ambient bottom-water neodymium (Nd) isotopic compositions, and hence be used as paleoceanographic archives. To this purpose, we measured Nd isotopic compositions (εNd) in a series of glauconitic grains, foraminiferal assemblages, leached Fe-Mn oxyhydroxide phases, and detrital clays separated from a contourite sediment record at the Demerara slope off French Guiana (IG-KSF-11; 2370 m water depth), at a location where the present-day εNd distribution along the water...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Rare earth elements; Neodymium isotopes; Glauconitisation; Demerara; Contourite.
Ano: 2021 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00689/80085/83115.pdf
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Olivines in main-group pallasites: magma-ocean cumulates or partial melting residues? ArchiMer
Barrat, Jean-alix; Ferrière, L..
Main-group pallasites (MGPs) are meteorites mainly composed of Fe-Ni metal and olivines, the latter being considered as one of the largest sampling of extraterrestrial mantle material available for study on Earth. We analysed the rare earth element (REE) concentrations of olivines from six MGPs to understand better the processes of formation of their parent mantle. All the investigated samples display very low REE abundances, and enrichments in both light REEs and heavy REEs. We interpret the light REE enrichments as a fingerprint of terrestrial contamination. The least contaminated olivines have higher heavy REE enrichments than those inferred for olivines directly crystallised in a magma ocean. Such enrichments in heavy REEs are possible if the mantle of...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Pallasite; Early solar system; Trace elements; Rare earth elements; Differentiation.
Ano: 2021 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00686/79770/82569.pdf
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Preferential Riverine Export of Fine Volcanogenic Particles to the Southeast Australian Margin ArchiMer
Bayon, Germain; Douglas, Grant B.; Denton, Geoff J.; Monin, Laurence; De Deckker, Patrick.
We report on rare earth element and neodymium isotopic compositions in a series of grain-size fractions separated from river suspended matter in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) and a nearby marine sediment core (MD03-2607) offshore south-eastern Australia. This source-to-sink approach was used to further investigate the extent to which sediment sorting may control the geochemistry of suspended loads in rivers, and to provide constraints on the source of the detrital sediment material exported to the ocean. Our results provide further compelling evidence that significant size-dependent geochemical decoupling can occur in river systems, accounting here for Nd isotopic (εNd) differences of up to eight epsilon-units between silt (>25 μm) and colloidal...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Rare earth elements; Neodymium isotopes; Suspended particulates; Colloids; Murray-Darling Basin; Australia.
Ano: 2020 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00610/72210/71005.pdf
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Rare earth element distribution in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: The balance between particle scavenging and vertical supply ArchiMer
Hathorne, Ed C.; Stichel, Torben; Brueck, Bastian; Frank, Martin.
The concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs) in seawater display systematic variations related to weathering inputs, particle scavenging and water mass histories. Here we investigate the REE concentrations of water column profiles in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, a key region of the global circulation and primary production. The data reveal a pronounced contrast between the vertical profiles in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and those south of the ACC in the Weddell Gyre (WG). The ACC profiles exhibit the typical increase of REE concentrations with water depth and a change in the shape of the profiles from near linear for the light REEs to more convex for the heavy REEs. In contrast, the WG profiles exhibit high REE concentrations...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Rare earth elements; Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean; Weddell Gyre; GEOTRACES.
Ano: 2015 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00294/40504/83046.pdf
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Rare earth elements and neodymium isotopes in sedimentary organic matter ArchiMer
Freslon, Nicolas; Bayon, Germain; Toucanne, Samuel; Bermell, Sylvain; Bollinger, Claire; Chéron, Sandrine; Etoubleau, Joel; Germain, Yoan; Khripounoff, Alexis; Ponzevera, Emmanuel; Rouget, Marie Laure.
We report rare earth element (REE) and neodymium (Nd) isotope data for the organic fraction of sediments collected from various depositional environments, i.e. rivers (n=25), estuaries (n=18), open-ocean settings (n=15), and cold seeps (n=12). Sedimentary Organic Matter (SOM) was extracted using a mixed hydrogen peroxide/nitric acid solution (20%-H2O2 – 0.02M-HNO3), after removal of carbonate and oxy-hydroxide phases with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.25M-HCl). A series of experimental tests indicate that extraction of sedimentary organic compounds using H202 may be complicated occasionally by partial dissolution of sulphide minerals and residual carbonates. However, this contamination is expected to be minor for REE because measured concentrations in H2O2...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Organic matter; Rare earth elements; REE; Neodymium isotopes; ΕNd; Sediment; Boundary Exchange; Paleoceanography.
Ano: 2014 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00191/30250/28682.pdf
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Riverine supply to the eastern Mediterranean during last interglacial sapropel S5 formation: A basin-wide perspective ArchiMer
Wu, Jiawang; Filippidi, Amalia; Davies, Gareth R.; De Lange, Gert J..
Organic-rich sapropel sediments were repeatedly deposited in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS), in response to insolation-driven freshwater forcing. However, the exact freshwater sources and causal associated paleoclimate-related processes remain unresolved. Sapropel S5, formed during the insolation maximum of the last interglacial, is one of the most intensely developed sapropels of the Late-Quaternary. Here, detrital sediments of sapropel S5 obtained from 8 cores, together with 13 EMS surface samples, are analyzed for major elements, rare earth elements, and Sr and Nd isotopes. This permits a basin-wide investigation of the source and distribution of river-borne material to the EMS for sapropel S5, and its comparison to the present-day and the Holocene...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Sapropel S5; Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Provenance; Radiogenic isotopes; Major elements; Rare earth elements.
Ano: 2018 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00435/54623/56024.pdf
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Sulfate minerals control dissolved rare earth element flux and Nd isotope signature of buoyant hydrothermal plume (EMSO-Azores, 37°N Mid-Atlantic Ridge) ArchiMer
Chavagnac, Valerie; Ali, Hassan Saleban; Jeandel, Catherine; Leleu, Thomas; Destrigneville, Christine; Castillo, Alain; Cotte, Laura; Waeles, Mathieu; Cathalot, Cecile; Laes, Agathe; Pelleter, Ewan; Nonnotte, Philippe; Sarradin, Pierre-marie; Cannat, Mathilde.
While hydrothermal vents are now thought to be a major source of dissolved iron to the oceans, they have always been considered to be a sink for the dissolved rare-earth elements (DREEs). However, true dissolved REE observations in hydrothermal plumes are still lacking. Here we report for the first time the DREE concentrations and neodymium isotopic compositions (DεNd) of buoyant hydrothermal fluids at Lucky Strike (Mid-Atlantic Ridge). We find that 27 to 62% of total hydrothermal DREEs are rapidly scavenged by anhydrite precipitation at the onset of buoyant plume formation. After this initial loss, all DREEs behave quasi-conservatively within the buoyant plume. Dissolved phase εNd (DεNd) in the evolving plume are identical to black smoker DεNd of +9.0 and...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Black smokers; Rare earth elements; Neodymium isotopes; Hydrothermal; Sulfate minerals; EMSO-Azores.
Ano: 2018 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00456/56733/58511.pdf
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Trace element behaviour at cold seeps and the potential export of dissolved iron to the ocean ArchiMer
Lemaitre, Nolwenn; Bayon, Germain; Ondreas, Helene; Caprais, Jean-claude; Freslon, Nicolas; Bollinger, Claire; Rouget, Marie-laure; De Prunele, Alexis; Ruffine, Livio; Olu-le Roy, Karine; Sarthou, Geraldine.
Seawater samples were collected by submersible above methane seeps in the Gulf of Guinea (Regab and Baboon pockmarks) in order to investigate the behaviour of iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and rare earth elements (REE) during fluid seepage. Our aim was to determine whether cold seeps may represent potential sources of dissolved chemical species to the ocean. Dissolved (<0.45 μm filtered samples) and total dissolvable (unfiltered samples) concentrations were determined over ∼50 m long vertical transects above the seafloor and at various discrete locations within the pockmarks. We show that substantial amounts of Fe and Mn are released into seawater during seepage of methane-rich fluids. Mn is exported almost quantitatively in the dissolved form (more than...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Iron; Rare earth elements; Cold seeps; Seawater; Organic ligands; Iron-sulfide nanoparticles.
Ano: 2014 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00211/32190/30704.pdf
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Trace Element Determinations in Fe-Mn Oxides by High Resolution ICP-MS after Tm Addition ArchiMer
Charles, Claire; Barrat, Jean-alix; Pelleter, Ewan.
In order to propose an optimal analytical procedure specific to ferromanganese (Fe-Mn) oxides, we investigated different modes of data acquisition using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results of trace element and Rare Earth Element (REE) determination in eight Fe-Mn nodules and crusts (FeMn-1, GSMC-1, GSMC-2, GSMC-3, GSPN-2, GSPN-3, NOD-A-1 and NOD-P-1) are presented here. The analytical procedure involves chemical dissolution of the Fe-Mn oxides and addition of a thulium (Tm) spike. The correction of measured values from potential isobaric interferences was investigated using both corrections based on mono-elemental solutions, and data acquisition in the high-resolution mode. The obtained results show that the high-resolution...
Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: ICP-MS; Fe-Mn oxides; Trace elements; Rare earth elements; High-resolution; Tm spike.
Ano: 2021 URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00692/80377/83498.pdf
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Use of nuclear technique in samples for agricultural purposes REA
Oliveira,Kerley A. P. de; Menezes,Maria Ângela B. C.; Jacomino,Vanusa M. F.; Sperling,Eduardo Von.
The concern related to environment is growing. Due to this, it is needed to determine chemical elements in a large range of concentration. The neutron activation technique (NAA) determines the elemental composition by the measurement of artificial radioactivity in a sample that was submitted to a neutron flux. NAA is a sensitive and accurate technique with low detection limits. An example of application of NAA was the measurement of concentrations of rare earth elements (REE) in waste samples of phosphogypsum (PG) and cerrado soil samples (clayey and sandy soils). Additionally, a soil reference material of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was also analyzed. The REE concentration in PG samples was two times higher than those found in national...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article Palavras-chave: Neutron activation analysis; Multielemental analyses; Phosphogypsum; Rare earth elements.
Ano: 2013 URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162013000100006
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