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Microscopy Used to Discover New, Cool Mineral!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen W. Carmichael
Stephen W. Carmichael*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic
*
carmichael.stephen@mayo.edu

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It is relatively infrequent these days for a novel mineral to be discovered in the natural environment (in this context, this implies on the Earth). On the rare events of such a discovery, the new mineral is typically found in milligram quantities. In an article by Ronald Peterson, William Nelson, Bruce Madu, and Herbert Shervell, they describe the discovery of kilograms of a mineral that had only been synthesized previously, but never before detected in the natural environment. As if that were not impressive enough, they went looking for this mineral because they thought it had been observed on Mars!

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2008

Footnotes

1

The author gratefully acknowledges Professor Ronald Peterson for reviewing this article.

References

2 Peterson, R.C., Nelson, W., Madu, B., and Shurvell, H.F., Meridianiite: A new mineral species observed on Earth and predicted to exist on Mars, American Mineralogist 92:1756-1759, 2007.Google Scholar