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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Portal:Minerals
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Did you know
... that after a mine tunnel was dug near
Cerro de Pasco
, Peru, the first known specimen of
pascoite
(example pictured)
formed on the walls?
... that the name of mineral
scrutiny
ite
reflects the efforts spent to distinguish it from
plattnerite
– another form of
lead dioxide
?
... that the
crystal symmetry
of
melanophlogite
changes depending on the
guests
trapped inside it?
... that the mineral
messelite
was described in 1890, discredited in 1940, reinstated and named
neomesselite
in 1955, and named
messelite
once again by 1959?
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