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Scientific paper
Nov 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985natur.318..166n&link_type=abstract
Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 318, Nov. 14, 1985, p. 166-168.
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Carbonaceous Materials, Cosmochemistry, Graphite, Interstellar Matter, Meteoritic Composition, Kerogen, Molecular Clouds, Solar Corona, Meteorites, Graphite, Carbonaceous Material, Abundance, Formation, Carbon, Cosmic Dust, Solar Nebula
Scientific paper
Carbonaceous material from several distinct astrophysical environments that has been identified in primitive meteorites is discussed. Most of this material is not well crystallized graphite, but ranges from kerogenlike macromolecular organic matter to poorly graphitized carbon. Of the small fraction of the carbonaceous material which is graphite, most may have resulted from the graphitization of macromolecular precursors in the solar nebula. Since graphite is more stable than those precursors, preexisting interstellar graphite should have survived in meteorites to at least the same extent as did other forms of carbon. It is concluded from this dearth of graphite that graphitic carbon was not a major component of the interstellar dust at the time of the formation of the solar system.
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