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Laboratory analogy of crystalline enstatite grain formation in plasma field |
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| Authors: | T Sato K Kamitsuji Y Kimura O Kido Y Saito |
| Institution: | a Department of Nanophysics in Frontier Projects, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga 525-8577, Japan b Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c Department of Electron and Information Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan |
| Abstract: | Crystalline enstatite (MgSiO3) grains were produced by the simultaneous evaporation of SiO grains and Mg vapor in a plasma field. The MgSiO3 grains were spherical or needlelike. The necessity of a plasma field in astromineralogy is suggested in the present study. |
| Keywords: | Laboratory experiments Dusty plasma Dust particle Composition |
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