What is Silicon Carbide? This is SiC

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Natural silicon carbide (SiC) was found in Arizona in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and bears the mineralogical name moissanite. In its "natural form" moissanite remains "very rare". Until the 1950s, no other source for moissanite other than as presolar grains in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites had been encountered. Then, in 1958, moissanite was found in the upper mantle Green River Formation in Wyoming and the following year as inclusions in the ultramafic rock kimberlite from a diamond mine in Yakutia in the Russian Far East. Yet the existence of moissanite in nature was questioned as late as 1986 by the American geologist Charles Milton.

Discoveries show that it occurs naturally as inclusions in diamonds, xenoliths, and such other ultramafic rock such as lamproite.

Analysis of silicon carbide grains found in the Murchison meteorite has revealed anomalous isotopic ratios of carbon and silicon, indicating an extraterrestrial origin from outside the Solar System. 99% of these silicon carbide grains originate around carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars. Silicon carbide is commonly found around these stars, as deduced from their infrared spectra.

The discovery of silicon carbide in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and other places was delayed for a long time as carborundum (SiC) contamination had occurred from man-made abrasive tools.

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