has discovered a new mineral on the moon, a phosphate mineral in columnar crystal named Changesite-(Y), which was identified in rock and soil samples it brought back from the lunar surface in 2020.The mineral was carefully separated by researchers from more than 140,000 tiny particles and then analyzed through a series of advanced mineralogical methods, according to the Research Institute of Uranium Geology, one of the major institutes of China National Nuclear Corp. It is not yet known if the new mineral has properties can be used on Earth. The announcement places China as only the third nation to find a new mineral on the moon - the US and Russia are first and second - and the discovery is the sixth new organic formation to be identified by humans since the first samples were brought back by 's Apollo 11 in 1969.
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