Tag: crystallization
Beetroot: discover a multi-faceted transformation!
This article is part of a series of publications in which Futura, in association with the Interprofessional Association of Beet and Sugar (AIBS), follows the beet season. With the harvest…
Nature, cultivation and processing of sugar beet: multiple facets!
This article is part of a series of publications in which Futura, in association with the Interprofessional Association of Beet and Sugar (AIBS), follows the beet season. With the harvest…
A new model of the crystallization of the Moon’s magma ocean
Rocks from the Apollo missions have provided information about the history of the Moon and the formation of its crust and mantle. But more recent mineralogical data, notably from space…
Fractional crystallization: what is it?
The magmatic rocks that make up the majority of the Earth’s crust come from the crystallization of liquids magmatic, at the surface or at depth. Surface crystallization leads to the…
When nature plays Tetris to shape the structure of minerals
Who has never marveled at the perfection of a quartz crystal or the cubic shape so clean of a pyrite crystal? The perfection of certain crystals may suggest that the…