User:Mice of Mu/The Carbon Mineral Challenge

The Carbon Mineral Challenge is a four-year scientific initiative to find new carbon-based minerals on Earth. The impetus for the program stems from research by Dr. Robert Hazen and his colleagues that suggests that as of December 2015 there were approximately 145 "missing" carbon minerals. The research utilizes distribution statistics not unlike methods used to identify new species in biology.

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