This paper demonstrates that a free electron gas model simulates quite well the spectral dependence of optical extinction spectra for carbon spiroids both synthesised in laboratory experiment and present in the interstellar medium. The assumption was made that the free electrons are confined in an homogeneous spherical particle owing to the delocalisation of π electrons that occurs in the actual spectral range.
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