It ’s purplish , semitransparent and break down by “ putnisite . ” Discovered in Western Australia , putnisite contains the unusual elemental combination of strontium , calcium , atomic number 24 , sulphur , carbon , oxygen and H and is notable for its unsimilarity from other , known families of minerals .
PopSci ’s Douglas Main has the details :
While XII of new mineral are discovered each year , it is rare to bump one that is unrelated to already - known substances . “ Most minerals belong to a family or small group of related to mineral , or if they are n’t related to other mineral they often are to a synthetic compound — but putnisite is completely unequaled and unrelated to anything , ” said Peter Elliott , co - author of astudy line the novel substanceand a researcher at the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide , in a statement . “ Nature seems to be far cleverer at dreaming up newfangled chemical than any researcher in a laboratory . ”
[ Mineralogical MagazineviaPopSci ]
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