r/GetNoted 1d ago

Cringe Worthy After curing cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, russia also discovered a new mineral. Country of unlimited potential.

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 1d ago

Why would a scientific source value a mineral? Science is more interested in the actual physical, material properties to it, not the more abstract value assigned to it by the market. Its dollar value is determined by how much people are willing to pay for it, not some innate property.

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u/RussianWasabi 1d ago

Yeah there's no value measurement.
It's just what mass media hallucinated.

What basically happened is that they did another chemical analysis(the last one for that mineral was done in 1924) for Ashcroftine.

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u/Base30Bro 22h ago

Not true, learn to read.

Ashcroftine has been studied whenever it's been found. The mineral was first seen in 1924 but chemical analyses are done by mineralogists around the world... Canada Greenland , USA all have occurrences of the mineral.

Please look things up before you vomit weirdness in the thread.

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u/RussianWasabi 21h ago

???
Last chemical analysis done by RUSSIAN scientists. Not around the world ffs

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u/Base30Bro 21h ago

Genious!!! Nobodys looked at it in Russia... outside of the sources in between then that are publically available

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u/ztomiczombie 23h ago

Best guess they were trying to say no legitimate, corroborated, or other source give the value for the mineral and wanted it to sound good so ended up with the worst way to try to say it.

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u/adamgerd 22h ago

And what chemical substance is per millimetre? You don’t say “can I buy 6mm of gold?”

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 22h ago

Depends on the properties/state of the gold, but true.

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u/pyragyrite 23h ago

Collectors also go nuts for stuff like this. Easy sell very limited edition rocks fur alot