The Girl Can't Help It | 1956
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For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the conditions believed to have formed it naturally. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan have finally pulled it off, thanks to a new theory developed from atomic simulations.
Their success resolves a long-standing geology mystery called the "Dolomite Problem." Dolomite -- a key mineral in the Dolomite mountains in Italy, Niagara Falls, the White Cliffs of Dover and Utah's Hoodoos -- is very abundant in rocks older than 100 million years, but nearly absent in younger formations.
"If we understand how dolomite grows in nature, we might learn new strategies to promote the crystal growth of modern technological materials," said Wenhao Sun, the Dow Early Career Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at U-M and the corresponding author of the paper published today in Science.
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Cassiopeia A, the remnant of a star that exploded about 350 years ago. Calcium is one of many elements made in large stars and their explosions. How much? Enough for more than 10 million trillion trillion glasses of milk! 😳
📷: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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happy (late) birthday calne ca(fanloid) and miyamai moca(voicepeak) !!! [mar 15]
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calne ca is a fanloid made by deino/ Maeda Koutarou, and initially introduced in 2009. she is a derivative of Hatsune Miku, and is officially acknowledged by cfm. calne ca is only called "calne ca" when cosplaying Miku/ when she is wearing her miku shaped casing, her "base"(?) or original body is just called "calcium", and calcium is a original character of deinos
miyamai moca is a japanese synth developed by ah software, and released on 15 feb 2024. her character birthday is mar 15 however. she was created in collaboration with Akasako, the project developer of TOKYO6 ENTERTAINMENT, however moca is not a part of tokyo6. moca is voiced by Mayu Mineda and illustrated by Miko Fly. moca loves cats and has a cat called Watson-kun. moca is secretly a DJ on the internet. she is in development for a singing synthv vb
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does anyone remember Bacterial Contamination?
I LOVE THIS SONG
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Round 2 - Matchup 21
Tungsten 74 (W) - Alternatively called wolfram (hence the W symbol), Tungsten has the highest melting point of all known elements. Tungsten is used in incandescent lights, and its high density makes it useful in things like penetrating projectiles.
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Calcium 20 (Ca) - It's in your bones. It's also where bones of very very old creatures used to be, as calcium carbonate, in and around fossils. Limestone and such.
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