**Research Firsts Exhibition: Image and accompanying text by Minty Donald and John MacDonald**
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A first-time collaboration where artist-researcher Minty Donald and Earth scientist John MacDonald used the same experimental technique, with different outcomes.
John’s research is on the potential of waste material from the steel industry (slag) to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Minty’s research is on the potential of contemporary art practices to examine humans’ interrelations with rocks and minerals. John and Minty placed etched glass slides into a slag-filled pond near the site of former steelworks, Ravenscraig. The slides became encrusted with calcite, drawn from atmospheric C02. The experiment will lead to new data (John) and new artworks (Minty).
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