Allabogdanite – a very rare phosphide mineral
Allabogdanite is a very rare phosphide mineral with the formula (Fe, Ni)2P, found in 1994 in a meteorite. It is the only known natural high-pressure…
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A Visit To A Historical Place/Building (Şehzade Mosque, Turkey)
The Şehzade Mosque (Turkish: Şehzade Camii, from the original Persian شاهزاده Šāhzādeh, meaning “prince”), also known as the Princes’ Mosque, is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial…
Edscottite – an iron carbide mineral
Edscottite is an iron carbide mineral, with the formula Fe2C2. It was previously known to occur during iron smelting, but in 2019 was identified as…
Tellurium – a chemical element
Tellurium is a semimetallic, lustrous, crystalline, brittle, silver-white element. It is a chemical element with the symbol Te and atomic number 52. It is usually…
Manganoan calcite – a variety of calcite rich in manganese
Calcite is calcium carbonate, and comes in a wide range of colors and types and is most easily recognized for its low hardness compared to…
Dodecahedrane – a chemical compound
Dodecahedrane is one of the Platonic hydrocarbons, CH, having the carbon atoms at the vertices of a regular dodecahedron. It is a chemical compound, a…
Traces Of The Primordial Magma Ocean Found For The First Time
Scientific accounts say that the earth once completely covered by a sea of magma. Excluding the situation of the age, we have never had proof…
The Internet Is Swooning Over This “Hot Pigeon”
“Sexy Koala” and “Hanky Kangaroo” aside, the internet has a new animal crush (and no, we are not talking about the recent Lola Bunny incident).…
Physicists Have Measured The Smallest Gravitational Field Yet
Scientists at the University of Vienna have now measured the smallest known gravitational field. As revealed in nature, the researchers measured the gravitational pull two…
Making A Megalodon: The Evolving Science Behind Estimating The Size Of The Largest Ever Killer Shark
The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark swimming in the oceans of the world. Scientific evidence megalodon lived 16 million to…
Is This The Best Place In The World To See Rainbows?
As if someone needed to travel to Hawaii, a newly published research paper explains why the archipelago is the best place to see the world’s…
Carbocatalysis – a form of catalysis
Catalyst, in chemistry, is a substance that increases the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed. Carbocatalysis is a form of catalysis that uses…
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