Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.
What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
If something's dope, you got to go with it.
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.
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