Processing of cometary grains at the nuc
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Max K. Wallis; Sirwan Al-Mufti
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Article
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1996
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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## Cometary material inevitably undergoes chemical changes before and on leaving the nucleus. In seeking to explain comets as the origin of many IDPs (interplanetary dust particles), an understanding of potential surface chemistry is vital. Grains are formed and transformed at the nucleus surface;