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Named after Russian physicist Sergey Stishov + -ite.
stishovite (usually uncountable, 複数形 stishovites)
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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/19 00:37 UTC 版)
Stishovite (after Sergey M. Stishov, a renowned Russian high-pressure physicist who first synthesized this mineral) is an extremely hard, dense tetragonal form (polymorph) of silicon dioxide. It was long considered the hardest known oxide; however, boron suboxide has recently been discovered to be much harder. At normal temperature and pressure, stishovite is metastable, as it will eventually decay to quartz; however, this phase change is slow enough that it has never been observed. Stishovite was synthesized by Stishov in 1961 and discovered in a meteor impact crater in 1962 by Edward C. T. Chao.