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Title: Identification of fullerenes in natural flames by APCI/LCMS

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OSTI ID:210623
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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)

The recent discovery of fullerenes in mineral deposits strongly suggests a natural means of fullerene formation. Previous work in this laboratory showed that fullerenes were relatively abundant in benzene/oxygen flames but not at ambient conditions. Reports of the detection of fullerenes in soots from free-burning toluene and common candle flames under ambient conditions led the authors to explore fullerene formation in natural flames. In this paper, the authors are reporting the detection of fullerenes from six soot samples collected from laboratory small open-flames.

OSTI ID:
210623
Report Number(s):
CONF-9505261-; TRN: 96:001157-0062
Resource Relation:
Conference: 43. American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference on mass spectrometry and allied topics, Atlanta, GA (United States), 21-26 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 43rd ASMS conference on mass spectrometry and allied topics; PB: 1411 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English