Mineral that ‘shouldn’t exist’ found in diamond harvested from Earth’s mantle – KIRO Seattle

ORAPA, Botswana — A deep-Earth diamond has yielded a mineral never detected before in nature.
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Called davemaoite, the namesake of prominent geophysicist Ho-kwang Dave Mao, the mineral is the first example of a high-pressure calcium…

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