Debate on how birds sense geomagnetic fields has largely revolved
around magnetite particles found in various parts of their heads.
Not exact matches
The lifting process frees the atom from the tight grip of the
magnetite, and together, the molecule and the platinum atom can start moving
around randomly across the
magnetite surface.
They identified rings of
magnetite (iron oxide) arranged
around the sooty spheres in the same pattern as in frocks from a volcano on the island of Svalbard, Norway.
The researchers used the new nano - scale technique of Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction to discover rims of the iron oxide mineral
magnetite just a few ten thousandths of a millimetre thick
around sulphide minerals inside the diamonds.