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The most relevant conditions in interstellar space for grain mantle evolution are being simulated at Laboratory Astrophysics. In particular we have photoproduced in the laboratory a material resembling the organic refractory mantle on interstellar grains. These organic refractory samples are being analyzed by several methods, and they have been found to consist of a very complex mixture of long chains, cross-linked and probably aromatic carbon molecules.
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Mendoza-Gómez, C.X., Greenberg, J.M. Laboratory simulation of organic grain mantles. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 23, 23–28 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581987
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