It’ll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth’s minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...
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The MIST team, from left to right, Yueyang Jiang, Kirsten Siebach, Gelu Costin and Eleanor Moreland (Photo credit: Linda Fries/Rice University). Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: ...