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The organic residue produced in the laboratory from a hydrocarbon plasma was termed a quenched carbonaceous composite (QCC) by the Japanese chemist A. Sakata and his colleagues. They proposed that QCC, a possible component of interstellar dust, might be the carrier of the 217.5-nm interstellar absorption feature (UV absorption bump) and the origin of some of the infrared spectral features in the interstellar medium otherwise attributed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules.
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Tokunaga AT, Wada S (1997) Quenched Carbonaceous Composite: A Laboratory Analog for Carbonaceous Material in the Interstellar Medium. Adv Space Res 19:1009
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Irvine, W.M. (2015). Quenched Carbonaceous Composite. In: Gargaud, M., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5_1326
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