Sentence examples for first mineral from inspiring English sources

Proteins like bone sialoprotein, biglycan, and decorin interact with the collagen fibrils and are thought to initiate the formation of the first mineral nucleus required for collagen mineralization [99], [142].

Proteins can initiate mineralization by lowering the activation energy required for the formation of the first mineral nucleus in metastable solutions which usually does not occur spontaneously [101].

In 2012, tantalum became the first mineral to gain a conflict-free smelter.

On high temperature vents of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Alvinellid-dominated communities colonizing first mineral surfaces are followed by a succession of communities with different species composition.

First, mineral soil bulk densities in the 0 15 cm layer were assumed not to change and thus the BD values measured in 2002 were also used in 2006.

While Pb isotopes cannot decipher the presence or absence of Pb signature of the basement rock, we argue that melt inclusions hosted in olivine (the first mineral to crystallize) would unlikely record assimilation process during magma transport through the basement.

When a granitic magma cools, the first minerals to crystallize tend to be anhydrous (e.g., feldspar), so an increasingly water-rich residue remains.

Forsterite and protoenstatite crystallize together from about 1,550° C to roughly 1,300° C and are among the first minerals to crystallize from a mafic melt.

Because of its high thermal stability, it is one of the first minerals that condenses from a cooling gas of solar composition (Gail, 2003).

First, minerals such as monazite or xenotime are dissolved into various acids, such as sulfuric acid.

A third mineral, leucoxene, is an alteration of ilmenite from which a portion of the iron has been naturally leached.