Thursday, 25 April 2013

feeds/tech+feeds/techvideo: Sea squirt helps solve 100-year-old crystal puzzle

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Sea squirt helps solve 100-year-old crystal puzzle
Apr 25th 2013, 22:19

By Tia GhoseLiveScience The crystal structure of a mineral found in a solitary sea squirt, a filter-feeding blob that lives throughout the Mediterranean and Red seas, has been solved.The mineral, called vaterite, has a crystal structure that has eluded scientists for nearly a century. Now, researchers have discovered that the mineral has two different crystal structures that coexist within a singl...

    


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