Kanan and his colleague Yuxuan Chen, also at Stanford University, have developed a way to produce magnesium oxide and calcium silicate using a process inspired by cement production. “You can ...

Food safety officials suspended the FSSAI license of a KFC unit in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi over the alleged use of magnesium silicate-synthetic for purifying used oil. "During a surprise ...

Its name derives from the Magnesia district of Thessaly, where the soft white mineral steatite talc — a hydrated magnesium silicate — was found in ancient Greece. Magnesium was first isolated ...

The Stanford team used a similar process in their laboratory furnace, but instead of sand, they combined calcium oxide with another mineral containing magnesium and silicate ions. When heated, the two ...