The paint was covered by salt crystals and gelatin glue.

可是因为该幅作品被晶体盐和明胶覆盖。

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And then we saw a pure alkaline lake in the front, whose salty is formed by the isolated salt crystals.

渐渐地，在前方出现了一片由于盐碱霜析出，而形成洁白如雪的高原碱湖。

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To do this, the researchers developed a way to study small air bubbles trapped in ancient salt crystals.

为了实现这点，这些研究人员开发了一种办法来研究夹带在古盐结晶中的小气泡。

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Dr Hazen and his team speculate from meteorite and early rock studies that several hundred mineral species, including zircon, quartz, clay and halite salt crystals, formed during this early period of mineral evolution.

ECONOMIST: Minerals

Russell Vreeland and William Rosenzweig, biologists at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, together with their colleague Dennis Powers, a geologist, started analysing Salado salt crystals in the hopes of finding some biological record of this bygone time.

ECONOMIST: Old salts

In conventional crystals, such as salt and sugar, these elements are atoms or molecules.

ECONOMIST: New-age crystals