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Science 8 August 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3893, pp. 589 - 591
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3893.589
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Carbon: Observations on the New Allotropic Form

A. Greenville Whittaker 1 and P. L. Kintner 1

1 Materials Sciences Laboratory, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California

The recently characterized " white " allotropic form of carbon has been produced at high temperature and low pressure during graphite sublimation. Under free-vaporization conditions above sim2550°K, the white carbon forms as small transparent crystals on the edges of the basal planes of graphite. The interplanar spacings of this material are identical to those of a carbon form noted in graphitic gneiss from the Ries Crater.


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