Sublimation of ice-dust mixtures in cooled vacuum environments to reproduce cometary morphologies

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Table 1

Characteristics and chemical composition of components used to simulate cometary materials.

	Water ice	Fly ash
Particle shape	Spherical	Spherical
Particle radius (μm)	2.38 ± 1.11	2.43 ± 1.41
Density (g cm⁻³)	0.93	2.25
Compd%
H₂O	100.00
SiO₂		59.20
Al₂O₃		27.90
Metal oxides		12.90

Notes. The properties and chemical composition of the particles were measured using an electron microscope before starting the experiments.

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