{"id":96445,"date":"2019-09-19T23:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/student-discovers-unusual-new-mineral-inside-a-diamond"},"modified":"2019-09-19T23:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:23:42","slug":"student-discovers-unusual-new-mineral-inside-a-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/student-discovers-unusual-new-mineral-inside-a-diamond","title":{"rendered":"Student discovers unusual new mineral inside a diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/student-discovers-unusual-new-mineral-inside-a-diamond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta has discovered a new and curious mineral inside a diamond unearthed from a mine in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mineral\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mineral<\/a>\u2014named goldschmidtite in honor of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, the founder of modern geochemistry\u2014has an unusual chemical signature for a mineral from Earth\u2019s mantle, explained Nicole Meyer, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graduate+student\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graduate student<\/a> in the Diamond Exploration Research and Training School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoldschmidtite has high concentrations of niobium, potassium and the rare earth elements lanthanum and cerium, whereas the rest of the mantle is dominated by other elements, such as magnesium and iron,\u201d said Meyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta has discovered a new and curious mineral inside a diamond unearthed from a mine in South Africa. The mineral\u2014named goldschmidtite in honor of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, the founder of modern geochemistry\u2014has an unusual chemical signature for a mineral from Earth\u2019s mantle, explained Nicole Meyer, a graduate student [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96445","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}