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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 04:00:20 2020 No.12390844 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12390850 >>12390858

How can we discover new minerals like Petrolite (pic related) if we already have a filled periodic table?

Brainlet here

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:02:22 No.12390850 Report

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>>12390844
Call them something else, like, minerals perhaps?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:05:30 No.12390858 Report

Quoted By: >>12390961

>>12390844
the periodic table is complete. those are elements.
take two or more elements and you can create minerals.
then minerals sometimes also have co-formulants and impurities.
the variety of combinations is almost limitless.

have a look at this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corundum

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:32:32 No.12390961 Report

Quoted By: >>12390975 >>12390987

>>12390858
Is there a mathematical way to predict the existence of undiscovered minerals, similar to how undiscovered elements were predicted?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:41:17 No.12390975 Report

Quoted By: >>12390976

>>12390961
there are ways to operate physical chemistry with numerics and to predict or calculate things. for a certain composition.
but i am afraid that what you think of is just to much. this exceeds our computational power by far.
this is a task for a server center 2050.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:42:24 No.12390976 Report

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>>12390975
*in 2050.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:46:54 No.12390987 Report

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>>12390961
Give a million monkeys toy molecule kits and let them play with them for a million years and record what new combinations they come up with.

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