The paper is a continuation of a similar previous research on a process that significantly affects the chemistry in interstellar clouds – evaporation of volatile molecules from the icy mantles of suddenly heated interstellar grains.

Such a sudden heating is possible because of collisions between the grains themselves or with the energetic cosmic rays.

The researched process is made complicated by evaporation and cooling that both occur simultaneously.

A specifically made computer program was developed to solve this problem.

After the clarification of general characteristics of the evaporation-cooling process in the first study, the new paper investigates how the number of sublimated molecules depends on a few most important aspects, such as the material of the grain, the amount of hydrogen molecules absorbed in the ice layer, and the size of the grain.

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