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Possible mechanism for limiting grain sizes

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It is suggested that grains are driven out of interstellar clouds by galactic radiation pressure and it is shown that the corresponding sizes which they can achieve within the cloud due to condensation is in reasonable agreement with observations.

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Simons, S., Williams, I.P. Possible mechanism for limiting grain sizes. Astrophys Space Sci 43, 239–248 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00640569

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