The story of magnets begins with magnetite, a natural rock that has the ability to attract iron. From ancient times, cultures like the Greeks and Chinese were fascinated by this property, ...

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

Knowing about the different types of iron ore is useful for investors interested in the space.Iron, a key material in steel and other applications, is most often found in hematite and magnetite ...

In 2016 researchers found unusually high levels of magnetite in a number of human brain samples. The tiny toxic particle can be found in modern urban air pollution and is now suspected to be one ...

Surface mapping and sampling in 2023 identified two massive magnetite rock samples that returned 8.812% TiO 2 and 0.548% V 2 O 5, and 15.505% TiO 2 and 0.586% V 2 O 5 (Figure 5) ...

Controlling electronics with light: The magnetite breakthrough Date: June 21, 2024 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Researchers have discovered that by shining different ...

The once-maligned poor cousin of the iron ore industry “magnetite” has attracted the interest of Australia’s billionaires lately and some think a new mining frontier is coming.