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Advances in knowledge of the relations between the optical properties and chemical composition of crystals, especially those affecting the amphibole group, have been incorporated in the text.

Mineralogy is the study of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, which are naturally-occurring, crystalline solids with a set chemical make-up. This includes the study of the chemical ...

After spending 13 years as a 'hands on' curator at the NHM, specialising in the mineralogy, gems and hard rock geology ... I have extensive experience of a number of Optical, Electron Beam and ...

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Last March, NFL chief football administrative officer Dawn Aponte told Joe Lemire of Sports Business Journal that the league is testing optical tracking technology that “can supplement or replace the ...

As NASA plans to establish a permanent Moon base via its Artemis program, it is looking to avoid the dangers of lunar ...

Subterranean estuaries the, subsurface mixing zones of terrestrial groundwater and seawater, substantially influence solute fluxes to the oceans. Solutes brought by groundwater from land and solutes ...

The 2021 East Asia sandstorm began from the Eastern Gobi desert steppe in Mongolia on March 14, and later spread to northern China and the Korean Peninsula. It was the biggest sandstorm to hit China ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique that uses light to tune the optical properties of quantum dots – making the process faster, more energy-efficient ...

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Department of Atmospheric Science, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, & Earth Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Fl 33149, United States ...