mineral
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Its ability to produce everything from rare-earth minerals to commercial ships is giving it a leg up in its trade war with the U.S.
When I’m finished, I can restain it with coffee or black tea and rub it with mineral oil for an all-natural finish.
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On Earth, kaolinite forms only after rocks and sediments are stripped of most other minerals through prolonged exposure to water.
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These isotopes helped determine whether clay minerals played a role in fossilization and whether those clays came from land, known as detrital clays, or formed directly within the seafloor, known as authigenic clays.
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To investigate the stones' journey, Curtin scientists used advanced mineral "fingerprinting" methods to study microscopic grains found in rivers near Salisbury Plain in southern England.
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