miassite
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Miassite is a mineral made of rhodium and sulfur, with the stoichometric formula . It was named after the Miass River in the Urals. It is a superconductor and an unconventional superconductor. Naturally occurring miassite is too brittle, so it is made in a lab for superconductor research.
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- sulfide class of minerals
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- chemical formula
- Rh₁₇S₁₅
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BC.05
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BC.05
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
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- Miassite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Mia
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Miassite is a mineral made of rhodium and sulfur, with the stoichometric formula . It was named after the Miass River in the Urals. It is a superconductor and an unconventional superconductor. Naturally occurring miassite is too brittle, so it is made in a lab for superconductor research.
Its ability to be an unconventional superconductor was discovered at Ames National Laboratory in 2024.
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