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Mineral carbonation
Mineral carbonation is the reaction of carbon dioxide with calcium- and magnesium-rich silicate minerals or alkaline wastes to form stable solid carbonates that store CO2 permanently.
Mineral oil
Mineral oil is a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons distilled from petroleum and refined, ranging from industrial grades to white mineral oil used in food, cosmetics, and medicine.
Mineral Park
Mineral Park is an open-pit copper, molybdenum, and silver mine in the Cerbat Mountains of north-western Arizona, 18 miles north of Kingman, first mined in the 1870s and restarted in 2025.
Mineral resource classification
Mineral resource classification assigns estimated mineral quantities to categories like Measured, Indicated, and Inferred Resources and Proved and Probable Reserves, under national codes including JORC and NI 43-101.
Mineral wool
Mineral wool, also known as rock or stone wool, is a fibrous insulation made from molten rock, slag, or glass, used mainly for thermal and sound insulation.
Mineralogical Society of America
The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a United States scientific membership organization, founded in 1919, that advances mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology and publishes American Mineralogist.
Mineralogy
Mineralogy is the branch of Earth sciences concerned with the formation, properties, uses, and classification of minerals, the crystalline building blocks of rocks, spanning fields from crystallography to gemmology.
MINERνA (ν-A)
MINERvA (Main Injector Experiment for ν-A) is a particle physics experiment at Fermilab in Illinois that measures how neutrinos interact with atomic nuclei at few-GeV energies.
MINFLUX
MINFLUX, short for minimal fluorescence photon fluxes, is a super-resolution microscopy technique developed by Stefan Hell's group in 2017 that locates single molecules with nanometer precision.
Ming-Jun Li
Ming-Jun Li is an optical fiber physicist and Corporate Fellow at Corning, inventor of ClearCurve bend-insensitive fiber and LEAF fiber, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Mingda Li
Mingda Li is an associate professor at MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, known for integrating AI with scattering and spectroscopy to measure quantum-material properties.
Mingji Dai
Mingji Dai is a Chinese-American organic chemist and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry at Emory University since 2022, known for allene diamination and over 40 total syntheses of natural products.
Minguo calendar
The Minguo calendar (民國紀年), meaning "Republic era," is the Gregorian calendar with years renumbered from 1912, the founding of the Republic of China, and remains Taiwan's official system.
Minhaeng Cho
Minhaeng Cho is a South Korean chemist at Korea University known for two-dimensional spectroscopy and the first femtosecond measurement of vibrational optical activity, published in Nature in 2009.
Mini-Neptune
A mini-Neptune, sometimes called a gas dwarf, is an exoplanet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, carrying a thick hydrogen- and helium-dominated atmosphere over ice or rock.
MiniBooNE
MiniBooNE (Mini-Booster Neutrino Experiment) was a Fermilab neutrino oscillation experiment that ran from 2002 to 2019 and reported an anomalous excess of electron-like events, testing the earlier LSND result.
Miniemulsion polymerization
Miniemulsion polymerization is a heterophase polymerization technique in which 50–500 nm monomer droplets are polymerized directly, each droplet becoming a latex particle of controlled size.
Minik T. Rosing
Minik T. Rosing is a Greenlandic-Danish geologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for 1999 carbon-isotope evidence of life in Greenland's oldest rocks.
Minimal coupling
Minimal coupling is the field-theory prescription of replacing the partial derivative in a free-particle equation with a gauge-covariant derivative, introducing interaction with a gauge field.
Minimal degree (computability theory)
A minimal degree in computability theory is an incomputable Turing degree with no degree strictly between it and the computable sets, first constructed by Spector in 1956.
Minimal model (physics)
Minimal model, also called Virasoro minimal model, is a two-dimensional conformal field theory with only finitely many primary fields, introduced by Belavin, Polyakov, and Zamolodchikov in 1984.
Minimal model program
The minimal model program, also called the Mori program, is a procedure in birational algebraic geometry that classifies projective varieties by replacing them with simpler birational models.
Minimal polynomial (linear algebra)
In linear algebra, the minimal polynomial of a matrix or operator is the monic polynomial of least degree that annihilates it, and it divides the characteristic polynomial.
Minimal subtraction scheme
Minimal subtraction (MS) is a renormalization scheme in quantum field theory whose counterterms remove only the poles of dimensional regularization, with no finite parts; its MS-bar variant also absorbs a conventional constant.
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, or MSSM, is the simplest supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model: every particle gets a superpartner, and two Higgs doublets are required.
Minimal surface
A minimal surface is a surface with zero mean curvature everywhere, the shape a soap film takes on a wire frame, studied since Euler in 1744.
Minimax estimation
Minimax estimation is a statistical framework that selects estimators by minimizing the worst-case risk over the parameter space, guaranteeing performance even for the least favorable parameter value.
Minimax theorem
The minimax theorem, proved by John von Neumann in 1928, states that in every finite two-person zero-sum game, players using mixed strategies face equal maximin and minimax values.
Minimum covariance determinant
The minimum covariance determinant (MCD) is a robust estimator of multivariate location and scatter, introduced by Peter J. Rousseeuw in 1984, that fits the tightest subset of observations and underlies outlier detection.
Minimum deviation
Minimum deviation, or minimum angle of deviation, is the smallest angle by which a prism deflects a light ray, occurring when the ray passes symmetrically through the prism.