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IN their recent article1, Claus and Suba-C reiterate a number of older arguments in favour of a biogenic origin of the non-birefringent, globular objects in the Orgueil meteorite. I am of the opinion that these are microchondri of glass and I have previously expounded my arguments in favour of this2.
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Claus, G., and Suba-C., E. A., Nature, 204, 118 (1964).
Mueller, G., Nature, 196, 929 (1962).
Mueller, G., in Advances in Organic Geochemistry. Proc. Intern. Meeting, Milan, 1962, 114 (Pergamon Press, London and New York, 1963).
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MUELLER, G. Interpretation of Micro-structures in Carbonaceous Meteorites. Nature 205, 1200–1201 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051200c0
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