Re: [meteorite-list] Ureilite ablation

eorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Ureilite ablation Hi All, Do the diamonds in Ureilites undergo ablation, and if so, what does the crust on them look like? If not, then let me ask this, can someone hypothesize about what they'd expect an ablated diamonds crust to loo

Re: [meteorite-list] Ureilite ablation

Diamond combusts at a fairly low temperature, less than 1000 K, converting it to amorphous carbon forms. At typical meteoritic ablation temperatures, the graphites convert to gaseous products like CO and CO2. So I'd say that the nanodiamonds found in ureilites have no significant effect on the

[meteorite-list] Ureilite ablation

Hi All, Do the diamonds in Ureilites undergo ablation, and if so, what does the crust on them look like? If not, then let me ask this, can someone hypothesize about what they'd expect an ablated diamonds crust to look like? William __