bridgmanite

American  

[brij-muh-nahyt] / ˈbrɪdʒ məˌnaɪt /

noun

Mineralogy.

1. a magnesium-silicate mineral, MgSiO 3 , the most abundant mineral on earth, making up around 70 percent of the lower mantle.

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Etymology

Origin of bridgmanite

Bridgman ( def. ) + -ite ¹ ( def. ); coined by Chi Ma (U.S. mineralogist) and Oliver Tschauner (German-born mineralogist) in 2014

Example Sentences

The researchers showed that bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in Earth's mantle, can function like a microscopic "water container."

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Earlier experiments suggested that bridgmanite could only hold small amounts of water.

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This approach allowed the team to map how water is distributed inside tiny samples and confirm that water is structurally dissolved within bridgmanite itself.

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The experiments revealed that bridgmanite's ability to trap water, measured by its water partition coefficient, increases sharply at higher temperatures.

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During Earth's hottest magma ocean phase, newly formed bridgmanite could have stored far more water than scientists once believed.

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