Friday (September 9) China Place Administration and China’s Atomic Energy Company Jointly declared that Chinese scientists have learned a new mineral from the moon. Via study on lunar samples collected by the Chinese Chang’e-5 mission.
Dong Baotong, Deputy Director of the Place of work The mineral is a new form of mineral that China has to start with learned from the moon. and it is the sixth mineral identified by person The new discovery would make China the 3rd state in the earth to uncover a new mineral from the moon.
The mineral termed Chang’esite- (Y) (Changesite- (Y)) is a colorless clear structured crystal. It was discovered in the analysis of lunar basalt particles by a investigation group from the Beijing Uranium Investigation Institute of Geology. which is affiliated with the Chinese nuclear organization
The Committee for New Minerals, Denomination and Classification of the International Society of Mineralogy. Chang’esite- (Y) has been formally approved as a new mineral.
resource Xinhua information agency
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