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2025-09-08 08:40:55

Molten #planets and early #atmospheres in the #lab: #mpsgoettingen scientist C…

Christian Renggli receives an ERC Starting Grant. The photograph shows Christian on a rooftop terrace with the window front of a building in the background. Christian is looking straight into the camera and is smiling.
In the Knudsen cell (the small white cylinder right next to the tweezers), only a few millimeters in size, an equilibrium is established between molten rock and evaporating gas. The gas is then analyzed in the quadrupole mass spectrometer. The photograph shows Christian operating the elaborate laboratory setup.
A sample in a cup in a furnace, with the scene glowing hot red behind the protective transparent door.