Dr. Wächtershaüser favors some mineral surface like iron pyrites, also known as fool's gold.
The term lustre refers to the general appearance of a mineral surface in reflected light.
When the cover eventually enveloped the cycle and broke free of the mineral surface, the first cell was born.
Lustre, in mineralogy, the appearance of a mineral surface in terms of its light-reflective qualities.
Jena, K. C. & Hore, D. K. Variation of ionic strength reveals the interfacial water structure at a charged mineral surface.
"Application of biosurfactants for mineral surface treatments," International Mineral Processing Meeting, Beijing, China, September 24-26, 2008.
For comparison, the fractured mineral surface was also studied by XPS.
Nanoscale imaging of the same interface suggested accelerated weathering of the mineral surface due to biological interactions, as indicated by a contrast in grain texture between a site on the mineral surface previously in contact with a fungal hypha versus an adjacent smooth site with no evidence of hypha interaction (Fig. 2c).
Clay mineral surface geochemistry; geologic carbon sequestration; kinetic isotope effects in aqueous systems; liquid water at interfaces; coupling between geochemistry, geomechanics, and mass fluxes in porous media.
We found that organic matter generally covered <50% of the total mineral surface.
Charges on the mineral surface were also linked to observed wettability change.
