Although it consists of a third of the Erath, the world’s most abundant mineral has not got its name for a quite long time, scientists was unable to get a natural sample of it to characterize. At present, after nearly intensive searching for fifty years, scientists have found a specimen […]
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Rare Mineral Unearthed in 450 Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Crater
When researchers were exploring an ancient meteorite impact crater in Wisconsin, they found a very unusual mineral which had been discovered three other places before. Such mineral, was known as reidite, a polymorph of the fairly strong gemstone zircon to be generated when the zircon was exposed to quite high pressures. Scientists […]
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