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July 27, 2021
DOVER, DE-
A Delaware State University Professor is receiving a 3 year, 627 thousand dollar grant to study properties of minerals in the Earth’s mantle from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Gabriel Gwanmesia says the money will go to recreating conditions where the mineral is naturally occurring in a lab environment by simulating the heat and pressure of molten rock hundreds of thousands of miles underneath the earth.
First, the material will be created at Stony Brook University on Long Island then sent to Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago for X-ray crystallography analysis using their synchrotron light source.
He says his focus will be the amount of water, in the form of OH that is stored in the minerals wadsleyite and ringwoodite.