In a series of papers, Firestone and his colleagues claimed various kinds of evidence for the hypothesis, including deposits of the element iridium (rare on Earth but abundant in meteorites), microscopic diamonds (
called nanodiamonds), and magnetic particles in deposits at sites supposedly dated to about 12,800 years ago.
Not exact matches
The stone's noble gas content supports an extraterrestrial origin, while the presence of tiny diamonds — larger than
nanodiamonds found in a common kind of meteorite
called chondrites, but similar in size to diamond aggregates known to be formed by impacts — supports a cometary origin.
In it, they describe a process by which
nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition,
called plating, that can lead to hazardous short - circuiting of lithium ion batteries.