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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
A mechanism is proposed for the initiation of dust formation in stellar winds of M-type giants and supergiants. If Mg and Fe are ionized (M0…M4) dust formation is initiated by homogeneous nucleation of SiO, otherwise (later ≍ M2) by homogeneous nucleation of MgS. The condensation temperatures for these mechanisms agree well with observations.