Na 200 jaar eindelijk het dolomiet-probleem opgelost

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The Dolomites in Italy and other well-known rock formations consist largely of the mineral dolomite. But for 200 years, scientists could not recreate dolomite in the lab to understand how it forms. Until yesterday! Yesterday a fascinating publication came out in the journal Science with an elegantly simple solution to the dolomite problem: alternating between growing and dissolving dolomite. I am not involved with this work, but was asked for an expert opinion for the Dutch popular Scientific Kijk magazine (in Dutch):
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