Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) is a natural product found in many settings, including the minerals aragonite 1 and calcite 2; the sedimentary rocks ... No. 14791-73-2; orthorhombic crystal structure. 2.

Meet “Zangenite,” a hollow crystal structure named in honor of the NYU graduate student who discovered it. Crystals, whether found in sugar, table salt, snowflakes, or diamonds, do not always grow in ...

In our study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, our team from The University of Hong Kong and ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

In view of the discovery by Clusius of a transformation-point of solid methane at 20.4° K, it was interesting to investigate if there is a change of crystal structure or not. Heuse made a ...

In solar science, a little structural harmony goes a long way. By finding the atomic equivalent of a perfect handshake ...

A Princeton team uncovered a surprising chiral quantum state in a supposedly non-chiral material, shedding light on elusive ...

Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a ...