“For jewelers and buyers, diamond cut, color and clarity are important, and inclusions — those black spots that annoy a jeweler — for us are a gift,” He said Oliver Schooner in a press release from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and co-lead of the study.
Regarding the improbable ascent of the davemaoite, it is comment to me nature, “It is the strength of diamond that holds impurities at high pressure.”
A specialized X-ray technology, known as the synchrotron, revealed the new mineral
Tschauner and his collaborators, including University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) geochemist Xichun Huang, obtained the diamonds before using a specialized X-ray called a synchrotron. This allowed them to analyze its internal structure.
They discovered a new crystalline material that they called “davemaoite” — a name chosen to honor experimental geophysicist Ho-Kwang “Dave” Mao, who pioneered many of the methods Tschauner and his colleagues use today.
Since then, Davemaoite has been approved as a completely new natural mineral by the International Mineralogical Association’s Committee on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification.
Davemaoite meteorites can be thrown to the Earth’s surface
Tschauner’s discovery of davemaoite illustrates one of two ways to detect high-pressure minerals in nature: from within meteorites or between 410 and 560 miles below Earth’s surface.
Even better, Tschauder actually made progress down the ancient path (inside meteorites) when he discovered the mineral “bridgmanite” in 2014.
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