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Scientists See Earth's Most Abundant Mineral For The First Time Ever
• Business InsiderNow, scientists for the first time have gotten a glimpse of the material in nature, enclosed inside a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. The result: They have characterized and named the elusive mineral.
The new official name, bridgmanite, was approved for the mineral formerly known by its chemical components and crystal structure — silicate-perovskite.
The magnesium-silicate mineral was named after Percy Bridgman, a 1946 Nobel Prize-winning physicist, according to the American Geophysical Union blog.
"It is a very exciting discovery," Chi Ma of Caltech and Oliver Tschauner, of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told Live Science in an email.
1 Comments in Response to Scientists See Earth's Most Abundant Mineral For The First Time Ever
More than likely this hogwash is being funded out of our tax dollars. And who knows what is REALLY going on behind the scenes that would prompt the stupidity being reported on in this article.
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