Catalytic crystallization of ices by small silicate smokes at temperatures less than 20K

Details Catalytic crystallization of ices by small silicate smokes at temperatures less than 20K Catalytic crystallization of ices by small silicate smokes at temperatures less than 20K

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24.1007m&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: G-M p 1007-1008 (SEE N94-16173 03-91

Computer Science

Catalysis, Cosmochemistry, Crystallization, Ice, Silicates, Water, Annealing, Chemical Bonds, Coatings, Comets, Crystallinity, Icy Satellites, Low Temperature, Methane, Smoke, Substrates, Water Vapor

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Samples of methanol and water ices condensed from the vapor onto aluminum substrates at low temperatures (below approximately 80 K) form amorphous ices; annealing at temperatures in excess of 140-155 K is usually required to convert such amorphous samples to crystalline ices. However, we have found that when either methanol or water vapor is deposited on to aluminum substrates that have been coated with a thin (0.1-0.5 mm) layer of amorphous silicate smoke, the ices condense in crystalline form. We believe that crystalline ice forms as the result of energy liberated at the ice/silicate interface perhaps due to weak bonding of the ice at defect sites on the grains and the very high surface to volume ratio and defect density of these smokes. Annealing of amorphous water ice mixed with more volatile components such as methane, carbon monoxide, etc., has been suggested as an efficient way to produce clatherates in the outer solar nebula and thus explain the volatile content of comets and icy satellites of the outer planets. This hypothesis may need to be re-examined if amorphous ice does not form on cold silicate grains.

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