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Professor of Physics Katherine Freese and her colleagues suggest that minerals such as halite (sodium chloride) and zabuyelite (lithium carbonate), can act as ready-made detectors. Find out more by reading the recent article in Nature.
Reference: Baum, S. Drukier, A. K., Freese, K., Górski, M. & Stengel, P. Preprint (2018).
