The second sample is a piece of dolomite (a rock made of calcium magnesium carbonate).

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The state of the dolomite sample after re-entry could help in the identification of these missing meteorites.

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In 1998, an American fighter jet clipped a ski lift cable sending a gondola of 20 passengers to their death in the Italian Dolomite mountain range.

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The Mussner family rebuilt the mountain lodge in 2010, using local Dolomite stone and larch wood and the affect is one of calm modernity, all clean lines and soft colours.

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American Electric Power ( AEP - news - people )'s 1.3-gigawatt coal plant in New Haven, West Virginia began burying 1.5% of its carbon dioxide under a cap of dolomite 7, 800 feet below the Ohio River.

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