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big grain
  دانه‌ی ِ بزرگ   
dâne-ye bozorg

Fr.: gros grain   

A type of → interstellar dust grains with a size ranging from 150 to 1000 Å. Big grains consist of graphite and silicates. They are in → thermal equilibrium with the radiation field and their emission can be described by a modified → blackbody radiation following from → Kirchhoff's law.

→ big; → grain.