News tagged with pyrite mineral
New evidence found for the oldest oxygen-breathing life on land
New University of Alberta research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Fool's gold gives scientists priceless insight into Earth's evolution
Fool's gold is providing scientists with valuable insights into a turning point in the Earth's evolution, which took place billions of years ago.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Unique Uranium Source in Naturally Bioreduced Sediment
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recently published Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study of a naturally bioreduced sediment sample from a former uranium mill tailings site reveals insights that enhance understanding ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation
The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is arguably the most important fossil deposit in the world, providing an astounding record of the Cambrian "Explosion," the rapid flowering of complex life from single-celled ancestors. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Fool's gold may prove an unlikely alternative to overexploited catalytic materials
Catalytic materials, which lower the energy barriers for chemical reactions, are used in everything from the commercial production of chemicals to catalytic converters in car engines. However, with current catalytic materials ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought
The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2011 |
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'Fool's gold' aids discovery of new options for cheap, benign solar energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pyrite, better known as "fool's gold," was familiar to the ancient Romans and has fooled prospectors for centuries – but has now helped researchers at Oregon State University discover ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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'Fool's Gold' from the deep is fertilizer for ocean life
Similar to humans, the bacteria and tiny plants living in the ocean need iron for energy and growth. But their situation is quite different from ours--for one, they can't turn to natural iron sources like ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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New model for how Nevada gold deposits formed may help in gold exploration
A team of University of Nevada, Reno and University of Nevada, Las Vegas researchers have devised a new model for how Nevada's gold deposits formed, which may help in exploration efforts for new gold deposits.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Fool's gold catches eye of solar energy researchers
Iron pyrite - also known as fool's gold - may be worthless to treasure hunters, but it could become a bonanza to the solar industry. The mineral, among the most abundant in the earth's crust, is usually discarded by coal ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Oxygen-free early oceans likely delayed rise of life on planet
Geologists at the University of California, Riverside have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans were oxygen-free and, surprisingly, contained abundant hydrogen sulfide ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2011 |
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The day the algae died
The P-T mass extinction may have been instigated by populations of algae dying. According to one group of scientists, this die-off of large numbers of relatively simple life forms caused a crash in the ocean's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Geologists revisit the Great Oxygenation Event
In "The Sign of the Four" Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has written a monograph on 140 forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, "with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash." He finds ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2010 |
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