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With ELDICO ED-1, the world’s first dedicated electron diffractometer just launched by ELDICO Scientific, crystallographic experiments on nano-crystalline samples become easy. The electron diffrac ...
Posted January 22nd, 2021 for JAMSTEC 1. Overview A research group led by Dr. Naotaka Tomioka, Senior Researcher at the Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (KOCHI JAMSTEC) gave the mineral name “poirierite” to a high-pressure phase with the chemical composition of olivine that was found in shocked meteorites. Poirierite has now been officially approved as a new mineral species by the International Mineralogical Association. Olivine (peridot) is abundantly found not just in the Earth's upper mantle, but also ...