Dear
Listees,
I have read an article published in C.R.
Geoscience 335 (2003) 889-898 and presented by Jean-Paul Poirier, that a new
cristalline polymorph of carbon was discovered in gneisses of the Popigai
crater, Russia. It is even harder than lonsdaleite and diamond, which makes
it a great discovery, and its Raman spectrum had never been detected in any kind
of terrestrial nor extra-terrestrial material before...
Should any of you be interested in the full
article in pdf format, please send me an e-mail and I will forward it. In the
other hand, Does anybody have any more recent information about this new
species, or know weither it has been detected in any other kind of material
since then ? If yes, I will appreciate if you can tell me more about
it.
The labs involved in this research job and
discovery are :
- Max Planck-Institut - Mainz -
Germany
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut - Bayreuth -
Germany
- Laboratoire des sceinces de la Terre - ENS Lyon
- France
- European Synchrotron Facility - Grenoble -
France
- CRCT - Montreal - Quebec - Canada
- Karpinsky Geological Institut - Saint
Petersburg - Russia
I thank you in advance for any news that you may
have!
All the best.
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