Ruby-red slippers take center stage at Academy Museum exhibit on color in film
LOS ANGELES -- In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ...
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Scientists Found One of the ‘Rarest Minerals on Earth’ Thanks To a Letter Written 75 Years Ago
The 75-year-old letter was written by a coal miner who said that this mineral was mined at that time from a site in Germany.
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Romania's trovants: The bulbous 'living' rocks that inspired folkloric tales of dinosaur eggs and aliens
Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.
Rubies and emeralds get their colours from a common metal
Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...
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Why are rubies red, emeralds green?
One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including ...
Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green—ruby red and emerald green. But ...
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Rare earth elements found in Lincoln Creek raise new questions
In addition to the potential for mining valuable rare earth metals, scientists are eager to learn more about their impacts to ...
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Geologica Discovers Copper Showing at Topley
Geologica Resource Corp. is pleased to announce the discovery of the Ruby copper showing at the Topley property in the Babine Porphery Belt . The Cortina, Pro, Gold Dust, Chris and Jill showings on ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
These minerals don’t form just when water and rock react. They form when water evaporates. We’ve never seen most of these sodium-rich minerals in meteorites, but they’re sometimes found in dried-up ...