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Jones, B.M., Aleksandrov, A., Dyar, M. D., Hibbitts, C.K., and Orlando, T.M. (2020) Investigation of water interactions with Apollo lunar regolith grains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. DOI:10.1029/2019JE006147.

McCanta, M.C., and Dyar, M.D. (2020) Effects of oxidation on pyroxene visible-near infrared and mid-infrared spectra. Icarus, 352, 113978.

Ytsma, C.R., and Dyar, M.D. (2019) Accuracies of lithium, boron, carbon, and sulfur quantification in geological samples with LIBS in Mars, Earth, and vacuum conditions. Spectrochim. Acta B, 162, 105715.

Di Guiseppe, D., Harper, M., Bailey, M., Erskine, B., Della Ventura, G., Ardit, M., Pasquali, L., Tomaino, G., Ray, R., Mason, H., Dyar, M.D., Hanuskove, M., Giacobbe, C., Zoboli, A., and Gualitieri, A.F. (2019) Characterization and assessment of the potential toxicity/pathogenicity potential of fibrous glaucophane. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 178, 108723.

Roberts, S., Sheffer, A., Dyar, M.D., McCanta, M., and Sklute, E.C. (2019) Oxidation state of iron in fulgurites and trinitite: Implications for redox changes during abrupt high-temperature and pressure events. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., 266, 332-350.

Dyar, M.D., Fassett, C.I., Giguere, S., Lepore, K., Byrne, S., Boucher, T., Carey, CJ, and Mahadevan, S. (2016) Comparison of univariate and multivariate models for prediction of major and minor elements from laser-induced breakdown spectra with and without masking. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 123, 93-104.

Dyar, M.D., Giguere, S., Carey, CJ, and Boucher, T. (2016) Comparison of baseline removal methods for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of geological samples. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 126, 53-64.

Dyar, M.D., Speicher, E.A., Gunter, M.E., Lanzirotti, A., Tucker, J.M., Carey, CJ, Peel, S.A., Brown, E.B., Oberti, R., and Delaney, J.S. (2016) Use of multivariate analysis for synchrotron micro-XANES analysis of iron valence state in amphiboles. American Mineralogist, 101, 1171-1189.

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