Close Up of the New Mineral Merelaniite
A team led by a physicist from Michigan Technological University has discovered a new mineral, named for the region in Tanzania where it comes from. John Jaszczak, a professor of physics, knew that something was very unusual about the mineral specimen he was examining under the microscope of a Raman spectrometer in the basement of Fisher Hall at Michigan Tech.
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