Floating crystal palace

• Autores: Danny Sanchez
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2975, 2014, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Magnesium aluminum oxide sure is a pretty mineral. It forms spinel, a gem coveted throughout history and whose red variant is sometimes confused with ruby. There's an even bigger rock, the Samarian spinel, in the Iranian Crown jewels. Here, Hooper features a spinel, which is a tiddler by comparison, but no less beautiful and certainly more intriguing.