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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 ...
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Vibrational and structural insight into silicate minerals by mid-infrared absorption and emission spectroscopies
Silicate minerals are essential bricks of solid planets, which have been studied deeply by infrared absorption spectroscopy. Along with the rapid development of planetary exploration, infrared emission spectro...
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Multifactor-controlled mid-infrared spectral and emission characteristic of carbonate minerals (MCO3, M = Mg, Ca, Mn, Fe)
Carbonate minerals have been playing an important role in determining the history of the earth's atmosphere, geology, and hydrology and have received extensive attention. In this study, infrared spectral chara...
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Infrared emission properties of a kind of natural carbonate: interpretation from mineralogical analysis
In recent years, infrared radiation materials have received extensive attention. In this study, a kind of natural carbonate rock was highlighted and its radiation mechanism investigated, using a series of mine...
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Mineralogical characteristics of Mn coatings from different weathering environments in China: clues on their formation
Identification of Mn oxides in natural Mn coatings is very difficult due to their poor crystallinity, fine grains, complex chemistry and tiny amounts. In this work, we investigated three types of Mn coatings i...
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Effects of Fe and V States on the Fenton Catalytic Activity of Natural Rutile
As a common mineral phase on Earth and Martian regolith, natural rutile was reported as a potential candidate for use as a Fenton catalyst in this study. The influences of Fe and V in various chemical states o...
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Erratum to: Psammoma bodies in two types of human ovarian tumours: a mineralogical study
Psammoma body (PB) is a common form of calcification in pathological diagnosis and closely relevant to tumours. This paper focuses on the mineralogical characteristics of PBs in ovarian serous cancer and terat...
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Study of the Interaction Between Bentonite and a Strain of Bacillus Mucilaginosus
Mineral-microbe interactions are widespread in a number of environmental processes such as mineral weathering, decomposition, and transformation. Both clay minerals and silicate-weathering bacteria are widely ...
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Treatment of Municipal Landfill Leachate with Organically Modified Bentonite
Landfill leachate is one of the most difficult effluents with which to deal from an environmental perspective because of its concentration and complex composition, including refractory and toxic components suc...