Ever wonder how Earth scientists examine rocks? We cut them up and throw them under a microscope ... and then everything ...

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But they tend to be spread thin around the Earth's crust in small quantities and mixed together or with other minerals, so larger deposits are difficult to find and costly to extract. Processing ...

Raman spectroscopy is a fast, simple technique that characterized the molecular structure of diverse materials spanning minerals (thin sections & powders), biological samples, fluids, dissolved gases, ...