Abstract
Evidence for non-homogeneity in the metal abundances of giant stars in various globular clusters is reviewed. The nonhomogeneity is of two kinds: (1) differences in the value offrom star to star in the same cluster, for particular values of A, and (2) non-constancy of the clustermeanvalue ofas a function of A. Observational evidence for the existence of variations of both kinds is cited, and discussed for four “nucleosynthetic” groups of elements:viz., s-process, Fe-peak, α-process, and CNO. The rival hypotheses of core-envelope mixing and primordial abundance variations are examined in the light of the observations.
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