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Wildfire Produces Transient Minerals: Speciation, Reactivity, and Fate of Iron and Manganese in Surface Soils Post Wildfire
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Equilibrium Fe isotope fractionation between olivine, pyroxene, spinel and MORB glass: Implications for mantle partial melting to generate MORBs
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Resiliency, morphology, and entropic transformations in high-entropy oxide nanoribbons
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Direct observations of transient weakening during phase transformations in quartz and olivine
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Widespread Occurrence of Magnéli Phases in Wildland–Urban Interface Fire Ashes
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Serpentine’s wet breakdown path and enhanced water flux in cold subduction zones
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Solidus and phase relations of Fe0. 8Ni0. 1Si0. 1 at Earth’s core conditions
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Asymmetric pathways for lithium extraction and recovery based on the two-phase equilibrium of layered oxides
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High Pressure Synthesis of Ultrasmall Nanodiamonds with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers
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Kingsport Limestone as a CO2 Caprock: Performance under Prolonged Laboratory scCO₂–Brine Exposure
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Redox–salinity coupling regulates arsenic release and hysteresis in coastal wetland soils under sea-level rise
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Calcium Solubility of Bridgmanite in Subducted Basalt in Earth’s Lower Mantle
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Effect of Si on Mg Alloying in Metallic Iron at High Pressures
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