Pure gold and the most beautiful minerals in the world

Photographer Ryoji Tanaka and chemist Ryoji Tanaka took amazing photos of the beauty of many minerals on Earth.

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Adamantane is the name of a type of hydrocarbon. This name reminds many of an English pop singer named Adam Ant, who is very popular with songs that appeal to young people. Adamantane in Greek means ' indestructible' , because it has a very diamond-like structure.

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Titan or titani is a chemical element, a metal, denoted by Ti and the sequence number in the periodic table is 22. Titan is a transition metal with a silvery white color. Titanium is used in hard and light alloys (especially with iron and aluminum). Its most common compound, titanium oxide, is used as a white dye. Titanium-containing substances are called titaniferous.

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Andersonite is a rare, newly discovered uranium carbonate mineral more than half a century ago. It was discovered in a sandstone uranim mine. Andersonite usually emits a bright lemon yellow color, or leaf color with a blue color when projected under ultraviolet light.

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Vanadium crystal , a whitish, hard metal, is sometimes used to make steel alloys on the background of white barite creating a nice contrast.

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Muonionalusta is a meteorite classified because there are many anata minerals. This meteorite falls in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million BC.

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Carpathite (also pendletonite and karpatite) is a rare mineral hydrocarbon with formula: C 24 H 12 . It was first described in 1955 in Transcarpathian province, Ukraine and named after the Carpathian mountains. It has also been found in areas such as Presov of the Slovak Republic, Kamchatka in Russia and from San Benito County, California.

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Pomegranate is found in chromium mines, made up of composed of calcium silicate silicate.

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Bitmut is a chemical element in the periodic table with the symbol of Bi and atomic number 83. It is a weak, heavy, heavy, pinkish white crystalline metal, with a major valence of +3 and has properties Similar chemicals like arsenic and antimony. Among metals, it is the largest inverse magnetic material and only mercury has a lower thermal conductivity. The compounds of lead-free bismuth are sometimes used in cosmetics and some medical applications.

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Pure gold . Gold is the name of a chemical element with the symbol Au (L. aurum) and the number of atoms 79 in the periodic table. A transition, soft, malleable, easy to malleable, yellow and illuminated, the metal is non-reactive, but it does not react to most chemicals, but is affected by aqua regia. to form cloroauric acid as well as under the influence of cyanide solution of alkali metals. This metal is in the form of ore or granules in rocks and in alluvial deposits.