Scientists solve the golden puzzle of calaverite

(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) There's quite a story behind calaverite. Apart from its marked impact on the Gold Rush, the mineral has been a headache and a great paradox for crystallographers for decades. The deeper researchers dug into it, the more new questions came up. Scientists from Russia and Germany have succeeded in interlacing all the oddities of calaverite within a simple model, so experimenters can now hunt for the new compound they predicted, AuTe, unknown until now.
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