Change of lattice volume during heating to 1300ºC at 23 GPa. Hydrous stishovite crystalized at 500ºC showed large lattice volume, whereas the lattice volume after dehydration by subsequent ...

Then, within the next billionth of a second, the dense silica crystallises into a very rare mineral called stishovite. The results are particularly exciting because stishovite is exactly the ...

In a new paper, published this week in the journal PNAS, scientists have described for the first time the remarkable water-carrying abilities of the mineral stishovite, a unique form of quartz.