haematite
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No spectacular high-tech materials or rare earths are required as the basis for the process, but rather naturally grown crystals -- namely the iron ore haematite.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
It is perfectly possible that haematite will now also be used for quantum research in the future.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
In 2013, New York University physicist Paul Chaikin and his colleagues described making particles of haematite, an iron oxide mineral, inside a spherical polymer7.
From Nature ● Jan. 4, 2016
The paintings were made with the natural mineral pigment ochre – probably ironstone haematite – which the hunter-gatherers ground to a powder and mixed with water or other liquids to create paint.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2014
The ridges are generally hardened sandstone, marked with madrepores, and masses of brown haematite.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
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