Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.

Ringwoodite is a high-pressure polymorph of olivine that is stable at high temperatures and pressures of the Earth’s mantle between 525 and 660 km depth.Ringwoodite is notable for being able to contain water within its structure present not as a liquid but as hydroxide ions (oxygen and hydrogen atoms bound together).

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