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Chemists at Stanford University transformed minerals in rocks to absorb carbon dioxide out of the air. Matthew Kanan, senior ...

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Olivine, a magnesium-iron silicate mineral, is common in the earth’s subsurface, and can sometimes contain other valuable elements, such as cobalt, manganese and nickel. Olivine has been explored as a ...

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Silicates are a common group of rock-forming minerals that comprise ... “It’s estimated that there are more than 100,000 gigatons of olivine and serpentine reserves on Earth, enough to ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have been searching for ways to make rocks absorb carbon dioxide more rapidly through ... the needed materials using abundant magnesium silicates such as olivine or ...

The hard rocks all around us are sponges for carbon ... with a crushed silicate mineral that contains magnesium — such as olivine, an olive-tinted mineral that can be found around the world.