A simulated visual representation of the structural transition from coesite to post-stishovite. The silicon atoms (blue spheres) surrounded by four oxygen atoms (red spheres) are shown as blue ...

“She said, ‘If there’s coesite, I’ll find it.’” Finally, in one of the cut and polished rock slides, with a thickness of 30 micrometers (1 micrometer is equivalent to 1 thousandth of a millimeter), ...