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Pressure and temperature profiles in several recent solar nebula models are reviewed. These parameters are important to cosmochemists because they determine the mineral assemblages that could form or exist in the nebula.
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Wood, J.A. Pressure and Temperature Profiles in the Solar Nebula. Space Science Reviews 92, 87–93 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005249417716
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