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Refractory grains of graphite and silicates ejected from cool giant stars acquire mantles of organic polymers typified by polyoxymethyline in interstellar clouds. Infrared emission from the Trapezium nebula is consistent with the occurrence of such polymers.
Cardiff Astrophysics and Relativity Preprint No. 1, August, 1974. Published in Nature 252, 462-463, 1974.
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Wickramasinghe, N.C. (2000). Formaldehyde Polymers in Interstellar Space. In: Hoyle, F., Wickramasinghe, N.C. (eds) Astronomical Origins of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4297-7_11
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