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Carbon polymorphism in shocked meteorites: Evidence for new natural ultrahard phases

Ferroir, Tristan
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Dubrovinsky, Leonid
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El Goresy, Ahmed
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2010
Earth And Planetary Science Letters

A slice of the Havero meteorite which belongs to the ureilite class known to contain graphite and diamond was cut and then polished as a thin section using a diamond paste. We identified two carbonaceous areas which were standing out by more than 10 pm in relief over the surface of the silicate matrix suggesting that the carbonaceous phases were not easily polishable by a diamond paste and would therefore imply larger polishing hardness. These areas were investigated by reflected light microscopy, high-resolution Field Emission SEM (FESEM), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis, Raman spectroscopy, and were subsequently extracted for in situ synchrotron microbeam X-ray fluorescence (XRF), imaging and X-ray diffraction (XRD). We report here the natural occurrences of one new ultrahard rhombohedral carbon polymorph of the Ram space group which structure is very close to diamond but with a partial occupancy of some of the carbon sites. We also report the natural occurrence of the theoretically predicted 21R diamond polytype with lattice parameters very close to what has been modelized. These findings are of great interests for better understanding the world of carbon polymorphs and diamond polytypes giving new natural materials to investigate. These natural samples demonstrate that the carbon system is even more complex than what is currently thought based on ab initio static lattice calculations and high-pressure experiments since this new ultrahard polymorph has never been predicted nor synthesized. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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DOI
10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.015
Web of Science ID

WOS:000274844700017

Author(s)
Ferroir, Tristan
Dubrovinsky, Leonid
El Goresy, Ahmed
Simionovici, Alexandre
Nakamura, Tomoki
Gillet, Philippe  
Date Issued

2010

Published in
Earth And Planetary Science Letters
Volume

290

Start page

150

End page

154

Subjects

Havero

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ureilite

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shock

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ultrahard carbon

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diamond

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diamond polytype

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Diamond Polytypes

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Pressure

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Compression

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Graphite

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Spectra

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C-60

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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EPSL  
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September 29, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/71257
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