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`Isotopically strange xenon' in meteoritic nanodiamonds: implantation by stellar winds?

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It is argued that the cycling of the atomic nuclei of`isotopically strange xenon' through carbon stars and its implantation intometeoritic nanodiamonds by low-energy stellar wind ions of such starslessens several difficulties of earlier theories. The isotopically strangexenon might be an abundant galactic constituent today, or have been suchduring the presolar past.

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Heymann, D. `Isotopically strange xenon' in meteoritic nanodiamonds: implantation by stellar winds?. Astrophysics and Space Science 275, 415–423 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002797827062

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