More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure ... by separating out of mineral-rich water ...

The kyawthuite crystal was discovered in 2010 by sapphire ... that scientists are only beginning to understand. The mineral’s structure includes checkerboard-like sheets of antimony and oxygen ...

The researchers used the crystal structure of cubic zirconium silicate ... Besides having significantly less biological interaction, mineral-based therapies might offer the chance for more durable ...

Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical properties of the mineral constituents of rocks. Both petrological and mineralogical processes are sensitive to environmental ...

The essential components were a fragile fine wire (the 'cat's whisker') acting as an aerial connected to a small piece of mineral crystal such as galena, which received and converted the signal to ...

Its unique crystal structure and special properties make perovskite a promising candidate for the solar cell of the future.

Despite the simplicity of the original perovskite crystal structure, this family of compounds shows an enormous variety of structural modifications and variants. The mineral perovskite (‘true ...

A team from Jilin University and Sun Yat-sen University say their lab-grown version is at least 40 per cent harder and far ...