High-Pressure Experiments Yield Discovery of New Forms of Feldspars - SciTechDaily 03-Jun-2020

High-Pressure Experiments Yield Discovery of New Forms of Feldspars - SciTechDaily

In high-pressure experiments, scientists have discovered new forms of the common mineral feldspar. At moderate temperatures, these hitherto unknown variants are stable at pressures of Earth's upper mantle, where common feldspar normally cannot exist. The disc…

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