bridgmanite
Americannoun
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
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Their simulations suggest that, because bridgmanite held water so efficiently under extreme heat, the lower mantle became the largest water reservoir within the solid Earth after the magma ocean cooled.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
During Earth's hottest magma ocean phase, newly formed bridgmanite could have stored far more water than scientists once believed.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
Earlier experiments suggested that bridgmanite could only hold small amounts of water.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
This approach allowed the team to map how water is distributed inside tiny samples and confirm that water is structurally dissolved within bridgmanite itself.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
This was exactly the kind of crush Fei and his collaborators needed to get a small sample of bridgmanite, a mineral abundant in Earth’s lower mantle, up to super-Earth pressures.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2021
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