How to Use apatite in a Sentence
apatite
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That's where time and temperature come in: The rate at which helium-4 leaks out into nearby rock slows as the apatite cools.
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Valerie Ross,
Discover Magazine,
2011-04-02
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When uranium decays to lead, a natural process that happens at a steady rate, the split leaves a tiny track in the apatite that is visible under a microscope.
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Lisa Grossman,
WIRED,
2010-09-15
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Griffin found that inserting copper atoms into lead apatite caused the material’s atoms to rearrange in an unexpected way that resembles existing superconductors.
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Reuters,
NBC News,
2023-08-04
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But now, after failing to take Ukraine by force, Russia’s military shortcomings will be on full display, strengthening Ukrainian apatite for sustained resistance and a long war of attrition.
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Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
2022-05-02
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The team took samples from two fragments of the Altar Stone and examined the age and chemistry of grains of zircon, apatite, and rutile using optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, along with isotopic analysis.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
2024-08-14
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The other important minerals available in significant quantities are limestone, dolomite, manganese, mica, china clay, graphite, fire clay, coal bed methane, uranium, phosphorite, apatite, quartz, gold, feldspar and pyroxenite.
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Gurvinder Singh,
Quartz India,
2019-10-04
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Branam was aware of similar research in South Carolina that indicated fluoride in the water came from a specific mineral in fossilized shark teeth called apatite and wanted to see if that could be a factor in his Indiana water samples.
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Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
2022-08-26
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