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Science 19 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3699, pp. 1025 - 1026
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3699.1025
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Radiation Sintering of Lunar Dust

R. Smoluchowski 1

1 Solid State and Materials Programme, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Protons in the solar wind displace atoms in the grains of lunar dust. These atoms may, through diffusion, sinter the dust layer into a partly coherent but still highly porous structure.


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