No compelling evidence for clathrate hydrate formation under interstellar medium conditions over laboratory time scales

2019/05/31 by Mathieu Choukroun, Tuan H. Vu, Edith C. Fayolle
Chemistry · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Absorption (acoustics) #Amorphous solid #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Clathrate hydrate #Crystallography #Hydrate #Infrared #Interstellar medium #Materials science #Methane #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Optics #Organic chemistry #Physics #Planetary Science and Exploration #astro-ph.EP #physics.chem-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1073/pnas.1902381116

published as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201902381, 2019 · Letter to the Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

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