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Apr 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3061...47s&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Ames Research Center, Carbon in the Galaxy: Studies from Earth and Space p 47-58 (SEE N90-27562 21-88)
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Collisions, Glassy Carbon, Meteoritic Composition, Meteoritic Diamonds, Mineralogy, Shock Waves, Supernovae, Amorphous Materials, Anomalies, Destruction, Impurities, Interstellar Gas, Isotropy, Nucleation, Oxygen, Silicates
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Supernova shocks play a significant part in the life of an interstellar grain. In a typical 10 to the 9th power year lifetime, a grain will be hit by an average of 10 shocks of 100 km s-1 or greater velocity, and even more shocks of lower velocity. Evaluation of the results of this frequent shock processing is complicated by a number of uncertainties, but seems to give about 10 percent destruction of silicate grains and about half that for graphite grains. Because of the frequency of shocking, the mineralogy and sizes of the grain population is predominately determined by shock processing effects, and not by the initial grain nucleation and growth environment. One consequence of the significant role played by interstellar shocks is that a certain fraction (up to 5 percent) of the carbon should be transformed into the diamond phase. Diamond transformation is observed in the laboratory at threshold shock pressures easily obtainable in grain-grain collisions in supernova shocks. Yields for transforming graphite, amorphous carbon, glassy carbon, and other nearly pure carbon solids into diamond are quite high. Impurities up to at least the 10 percent level (for oxygen) are tolerated in the process. The typical size diamond expected from shock transformation agrees well with the observed sizes in the Lewis et al. findings in meteoritic material. Isotropic anomalies already contained in the grain are likely to be retained through the conversion process, while others may be implanted by the shock if the grain is close to the supernova. The meteoritic diamonds are likely to be the results of transformation of carbon grains in grain-grain collisions in supernova shock waves.
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