{"id":115575,"date":"2020-11-07T04:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/earth-grows-fine-gemstones-in-minutes-crystals-could-grow-up-to-3-feet-per-day-in-some-cooling-magmas"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:55:43","slug":"earth-grows-fine-gemstones-in-minutes-crystals-could-grow-up-to-3-feet-per-day-in-some-cooling-magmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/earth-grows-fine-gemstones-in-minutes-crystals-could-grow-up-to-3-feet-per-day-in-some-cooling-magmas","title":{"rendered":"Earth Grows Fine Gemstones in Minutes \u2013 Crystals Could Grow Up to 3 Feet per Day in Some Cooling Magmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-grows-fine-gemstones-in-minutes-crystals-could-grow-up-to-3-feet-per-day-in-some-cooling-magmas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day, but some of Earth\u2019s finest gemstones were, according to new research from Rice University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain both large crystals and hard-to-find elements like tantalum and niobium. Another common find is lithium, a vital component of electric car batteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one step towards understanding how Earth concentrates lithium in certain places and minerals,\u201d said Rice graduate student Patrick Phelps, co-author of a study published online in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>. \u201cIf we can understand the basics of pegmatite growth rates, it\u2019s one step in the direction of understanding the whole picture of how and where they form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day, but some of Earth\u2019s finest gemstones were, according to new research from Rice University. Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain both large crystals and hard-to-find elements like tantalum and niobium. Another common [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}