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Environmental Effects of Tunnel Structure Minerals
There are more than 30 known manganese oxide/hydroxide minerals distributed in a wide variety of geological settings (Post in Proc Nal Acad Sci 96(7):3447–3454 1999). Mn presents in most manganese oxide/hydrox...
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Redox Activity of Iron Sulfide and Mn Oxide
Pyrrhotite is a common iron sulfide mineral in nature, which can be divided into hexagonal and monoclinic structure. Hexagonal pyrrhotite is also called meteorite pyrite, and its chemical composition is FeS. T...
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Photocatalytic Reduction Effects of Sphalerite and Sulfur
Semiconducting minerals are widely distributed in nature. They have been playing critical roles in near-surface geological processes, including the formation of prebiotic organic molecules (Schoonen et al., Am...
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Interactions Between Semiconducting Minerals and Microbes
A synergistic reaction pathway has been identified between semiconducting minerals and bacteria. Such reactions sustain electron and energy flow from light to non-phototrophic bacteria via semiconducting miner...
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Environmental Property of Minerals
Resources and environment are the two main themes of contemporary earth sciences. And as a basic discipline of geoscience, the development of mineralogy should focus on the two themes. The understanding and ut...
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Photoactivity of Mn Oxides on Earth’s Surface
Mn oxides have long been ubiquitously spread on earth, from the Mn deposits in Precambrian strata (Roy in Geol Soc London Spec Publ 119:5–27, 1997) to the Mn nodules spread over the sea floor (Bauman in Nature...
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Interaction Between Fe & Mn-Bearing Minerals and Microbes
Minerals and microbes have coevolved throughout the earth’s history. They interact at the microscopic scale, but their effects are manifested macroscopically. Minerals support microbial growth by providing ess...
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Photocatalytic Oxidation Effects of Rutile
The use of photocatalytic reactions for industrial and environmental applications has received growing attention since Fujishima and Honda discovered the photocatalytic splitting of water on TiO2 electrode (Fujis...
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Infrared Effect of Minerals
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy technology has played an important role in various fields, including food safety detection, identifying the fingerprint area of substances, and revealing the internal vi...
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Human Pathological Mineral Features
Mineralization is a subsystem of the life system, which is one of several events that constitute the life process of the human body. Functional mineralization is a controlled process that occurs in a specific ...