During their laboratory research, Kanan and Chen adopted a similar process but replaced the sand with another mineral ...

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In nature, common minerals called silicates react with water and atmospheric CO 2 to form stable bicarbonate ions and solid carbonate minerals -- a process known as weathering.

Natural silicate minerals such as basalt react with water and CO2 to form solid carbonate materials, a process known as enhanced rock weathering (ERW).

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery in the YSES-1 system, 300 light-years away. It revealed ...

Instead of using sand, the Stanford researchers combined calcium oxide with another mineral containing magnesium and silicate ions. When heated, the minerals transformed into magnesium oxide and ...

The two brand new minerals were found inside a single 2.5 ounce (70 gram) slice taken from the 16.5 ton (15 metric tons) El Ali meteorite, which was found in 2020.

China has discovered a new silicate mineral, known as Nipeiite-(Ce), with the highest cerium content found so far, in a rare-earth mine in Central China's Henan Province. The mineral has been ...

During their laboratory research, Kanan and Chen adopted a similar process but replaced the sand with another mineral containing magnesium and silicate ions. When heated, the minerals exchange ...