A rare and highly reactive iron mineral called green rust appears to have played an important role in ancient oceans, suggest new findings, which may have implications for the formation of Earth’s ...

The world's primary economic source of iron ore, iron formations, are ancient sedimentary rocks that appear as solid as rocks can be. How did they get to be like that? According to researchers, it has ...

Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations - the world's chief economic source of iron ore - were once dissolved in seawater. How did that iron go from a ...

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A rare kind of mineral known as “green rust”, which could be used to scrape toxic metals and radioactive species from the environment, also played a similar and crucial role early in Earth’s history.

"Green rust" played a key role in making the Earth habitable and may now have an equally important role to play in cleaning it up for the future. Green rust is a highly reactive iron mineral which ...

A green rust catalyst modified with copper oxide clusters facilitates efficient hydrogen production from sodium borohydride under light and thermal conditions, offering a scalable, low-cost ...