Carbynes: Carriers of Primordial Noble Gases in Meteorites
- 26 September 1980
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 209 (4464), 1512-1514
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.209.4464.1512
Abstract
Five carbynes (triply bonded allotropes of carbon) have been found by electron diffraction in the Allende and Murchison carbonaceous chondrites: carbon VI, VIII, X, XI, and (tentatively) XII. From the isotopic composition of the associated noble-gas components, it appears that the carbynes in Allende (C3V chondrite) are local condensates from the solar nebula, whereas at least two carbynes in Murchison (C2 chondrite) are of exotic, presolar origin. They may be dust grains that condensed in stellar envelopes and trapped isotopically anomalous matter from stellar nucleosynthesis.Keywords
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